Its well known that many intellectuals and geniuses were volcel and that many historical spiritual traditions required celibacy. Its pretty clear from my experience that it really does increase intelligence in some ways. I have a theory of why that happens.
Fapping wires your brain to orgasms and excites dopamine receptors. By refraining from it, you stop satisfying those receptors so they start starving. Your brain tries to compensate for this by making your regular experiences of other things more rewarding so that you meet the requirements of dopamine your brain is used to. This process of adjustment is very painful but allows you to feel some moments extreme joy at simple things.
Impactful experiences are more easily commited to memory. As your brain produces more dopamine at regular experiences, everything is more impactful and thus more easily recalled. As things are more impactful, you can change more easily in response to them, since impactful experiences are more life changing. So basically your brain becomes more plastic in response to experiences. This also means that you can learn more easily. Your inner voice and imagination become louder since they generate more dopamine, and you can build upon premises more easily and work with hypotetical scenarios better since they feel more real, significant, concrete.
This fits well with things i read about schizophrenia, as an extreme example of this. Apparently schizos have an intensified dopaminergic system and it amplifies the intensity of their thoughts to the point they cant disguish fantasy for reality, and also intensifies normal experiences so they think simple things have hidden meaning or importance. It also amplifies the significance of the similarities between things, so they draw connections that arent really there. Also that would explain why meth users have psychosis because meth greatly increases dopamine.
If someone knows more about these topics feel free to correct me, idk anything about neuroscience
Fapping wires your brain to orgasms and excites dopamine receptors. By refraining from it, you stop satisfying those receptors so they start starving. Your brain tries to compensate for this by making your regular experiences of other things more rewarding so that you meet the requirements of dopamine your brain is used to. This process of adjustment is very painful but allows you to feel some moments extreme joy at simple things.
Impactful experiences are more easily commited to memory. As your brain produces more dopamine at regular experiences, everything is more impactful and thus more easily recalled. As things are more impactful, you can change more easily in response to them, since impactful experiences are more life changing. So basically your brain becomes more plastic in response to experiences. This also means that you can learn more easily. Your inner voice and imagination become louder since they generate more dopamine, and you can build upon premises more easily and work with hypotetical scenarios better since they feel more real, significant, concrete.
This fits well with things i read about schizophrenia, as an extreme example of this. Apparently schizos have an intensified dopaminergic system and it amplifies the intensity of their thoughts to the point they cant disguish fantasy for reality, and also intensifies normal experiences so they think simple things have hidden meaning or importance. It also amplifies the significance of the similarities between things, so they draw connections that arent really there. Also that would explain why meth users have psychosis because meth greatly increases dopamine.
If someone knows more about these topics feel free to correct me, idk anything about neuroscience
