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Dagobah Resident
[quote author=http://www.gnolls.org/3039/its-just-like-drug-addiction-everyone-freak-out-the-role-and-limits-of-reward-why-are-we-hungry-part-8/]The point that the subcortical structures of the human brain, including the reward systems, are essentially identical to those of other mammal brains is well-taken and extremely instructive. (I thought about bringing it up myself, but decided that it would make the article too long!) Our “conscious mind” (i.e. executive function, i.e. the forebrain) sits on top of these older systems: it doesn't replace them, it works through them and is mediated by them![/quote]
Anart once told me to doubt my thinking. Doing that calls into question all the reward systems... it casts everything, likes and dislikes, into the fire.
[quote author=http://www.gnolls.org/3039/its-just-like-drug-addiction-everyone-freak-out-the-role-and-limits-of-reward-why-are-we-hungry-part-8/]The brain’s reward system underlies all our motivations—not just the bad or “addictive” ones. Any choice we make that isn’t purely a rational product of our forebrain likely involves some measure of reward signaling.[/quote]Is this why only superefforts count? We are using our rational mind to override all the lower systems, and this heats the crucible.
We live in the Dark Ages. The Ancient Science is lost, buried, concealed. But all around us, it manifests. Everywhere apples fall from trees, waiting for someone to discover gravity.
