Humans can survive without water for 3 days. Humans can survive without food for 30-40 days. In the article, “Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger”, It seems to prove that human interaction is a need, necessary for survival, and lots of stories and movies seem to prove it, but is it really a NEED? And if human interaction is really necessary, then there will be a certain amount of time that humans can survive without it. Sure, the old prisoner in books in movies has gone insane, but Robinson Crusoe survived just fine for many years. Maybe it has something that varies person to person, and affects social people more than not social people, but is it really NEEDED to survive?
In the article, the effects on the brain for wanting food are similar for wanting social interactions, but that is a want, while food is a need. Maybe social interaction is also a need, but it just shows physically far slower than the need for water, or food, but maybe it is just a mental want, not a physical need. Anti social animals can survive just fine by themselves. Why can’t humans? Perhaps its because they are social animals, but just like animals, there are social humans, and non social humans. Humans Originated in many countries, and though they are all humans, maybe some humans just don’t need social interactions as much as others.
When someone volunteers to be socially isolated, the effect is different from being forced to be socially isolated, but what is a human ‘adapts’ to fit the need of no social interaction? Even though we can research all we want, maybe social interaction is a need, but it just takes a really long time, years and years and years, to show, and unlike how ALL humans can survive without water for 3 days, and Humans can survive without food for 30-40 days, it varies from person to person? There is currently no way of testing this, because it will take many years, perhaps, so currently, there is no way of confirming if human interaction is really a need or not.