
That brain network, now known as the Default Mode Network, is associated with creativity and imagination. If you think about it as a light switch, it comes on whenever your task-oriented networks shut off. So if you and the internet are constantly performing “productivity” together — it stays dark.
Taking time for silence, interiority, and deep thinking is probably the best way to push your brain to reverse any disadvantageous adaptations to our online lives. During early functional MRI studies, researchers noticed that a certain set of brain regions would …