19) An "upgrade" that improved our functional competency
An "upgrade" that improved our functional competency, lowered our anxiety, stress, fear, aggressiveness, etc., and saved our species look like:
Source: Can we survive w/our current OS and buggy programs?
Q&A
Q) What is the difference between a dopamine high and stillness/joy/peace at a neural level?
A) The capacity to link reward to events and actions is the foundation of human and animal survival, and problems with the processing of reward lie at the heart of many neurological and psychiatric disorders, with far-reaching implications for understanding human behavior, including decision-making, gambling, drug addiction, compulsive behavior and schizophrenia.
Reward is essential to survival because humans and other animals need to learn to direct their decisions and their actions towards outcomes that will satisfy their needs, and away from danger…to learn which events in the environment predict future rewards and punishments.
Reward is influenced and determined by…taste and smell, as well as…hunger or thirst. It influences choices, decisions and even attention…one central linchpin for learning and performance is dopamine.
“This is the biological process that makes us want to buy a bigger car or house, or be promoted at work. Every time we get the reward, our dopamine neurons affect our behavior. They are like little devils in our brain that drive us towards more rewards".
“Addictive drugs generate, hijack and amplify the reward signal and induce exaggerated and uncontrolled effects of dopamine on the brain,” Schultz explained.
Dayan realized that the pattern of activity of dopamine neurons…corresponds to…’reward prediction error’…the difference between the reward that is actually delivered and the reward that is predicted to be delivered. Prediction errors sculpt our expectations and experience of the world.
“For example, imagine that you choose between restaurants based on predicting how good they are...if the one you chose is better than expected, the positive prediction error allows you to update your prediction. Next time...you are more likely to pick the one that was better,” said Dayan.
This link between dopamine and prediction error was one of the spurs for an explosion of work using theoretical ideas and computational models to link artificial intelligence, economics, mathematics, engineering and statistics to ... results in psychology and neuroscience.
If you put "dopamine" in the blog search box, you'll see 24 posts on it the latest of which is "How the changing brain turns our pleasures into addictions" which has links to many of them. Dopamine makes the world go round..
An "upgrade" that improved our functional competency, lowered our anxiety, stress, fear, aggressiveness, etc., and saved our species look like:
- Use software removal tools on the ego/I program and its subroutine "I am this body."
- Discontinue using and supporting the confirmation bias program.
- Discontinue using the reciprocal altruism program and replace with an open source version.
- Use malware removal tools on the "attachments" programs.
- Discontinue using the "free will, I'm in control" program.
Source: Can we survive w/our current OS and buggy programs?
Q&A
Q) What is the difference between a dopamine high and stillness/joy/peace at a neural level?
A) The capacity to link reward to events and actions is the foundation of human and animal survival, and problems with the processing of reward lie at the heart of many neurological and psychiatric disorders, with far-reaching implications for understanding human behavior, including decision-making, gambling, drug addiction, compulsive behavior and schizophrenia.
Reward is essential to survival because humans and other animals need to learn to direct their decisions and their actions towards outcomes that will satisfy their needs, and away from danger…to learn which events in the environment predict future rewards and punishments.
Reward is influenced and determined by…taste and smell, as well as…hunger or thirst. It influences choices, decisions and even attention…one central linchpin for learning and performance is dopamine.
“This is the biological process that makes us want to buy a bigger car or house, or be promoted at work. Every time we get the reward, our dopamine neurons affect our behavior. They are like little devils in our brain that drive us towards more rewards".
“Addictive drugs generate, hijack and amplify the reward signal and induce exaggerated and uncontrolled effects of dopamine on the brain,” Schultz explained.
Dayan realized that the pattern of activity of dopamine neurons…corresponds to…’reward prediction error’…the difference between the reward that is actually delivered and the reward that is predicted to be delivered. Prediction errors sculpt our expectations and experience of the world.
“For example, imagine that you choose between restaurants based on predicting how good they are...if the one you chose is better than expected, the positive prediction error allows you to update your prediction. Next time...you are more likely to pick the one that was better,” said Dayan.
This link between dopamine and prediction error was one of the spurs for an explosion of work using theoretical ideas and computational models to link artificial intelligence, economics, mathematics, engineering and statistics to ... results in psychology and neuroscience.
If you put "dopamine" in the blog search box, you'll see 24 posts on it the latest of which is "How the changing brain turns our pleasures into addictions" which has links to many of them. Dopamine makes the world go round..