When faced with danger, humans are wired to draw closer together, and social distancing thwarts this impulse. In a new paper, published in the journal Current Biology, experts argue that this natural behavior poses a greater threat to society than overtly antisocial behavior.
The COVID-19 crisis constitutes a truly global threat, and in the absence of a vaccine, our primary defense against it involves “social distancing” — minimizing our contacts with others in public spaces. “Hazardous conditions make us more — not less — social.
Coping with this contradiction is the biggest challenge we now face,” said Professor Ophelia Deroy, who holds a chair in philosophy of mind at Ludwigs-Maximilians Universitaet in Munich (LMU).
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