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Why are we always hopeful for solutions even in the darkest times—and so good at figuring them out? Daniel Lieberman: It's true, and most animals do have it. It's a very ancient chemical, but humans seem to have more of it than any other organism, and we are much more sophisticated than other organisms and so in human beings, it does a lot more, then just reward us when we engage in pro survival activities. It's responsible for a whole host of activities that people would never guess, such as love, creativity, even political affiliation.
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But there are a lot of more random things — concepts, images, what have you, floating around in their brains than non-dopaminergic people or people of lower levels of dopamine. And just by dent of having more things, is more likely to associate things that haven't been associated before.Mike Long: I'm going, I'm going to say this, and I think it's the difference between us is one of degrees. Writing this book was a lot of fun. We enjoyed it. We had fun disagreements. We had silly arguments. We have serious, serious discussions, and I'm going to say, for my part, writing the book was a lot more fun than having it in your hand. I mean, I'm proud of it, and I learned a lot. But that two-year course we went through, I wouldn't trade that for anything. And it was, and it was simply the experience of going through that. Yeah, that's good. DanielLiebermanand Michael Long have pulled off an amazing feat. They have made a biography of a neurotransmitter a riveting read.Once you understand the power and peril of dopamine, you’ll better understand the human condition itself.” Chapter 2: Drugs............................................................................................................. 45 Daniel Lieberman: Dopamine is a chemical in the brain. I like to think of it like the conductor of an orchestra. It turns on, turns off, turns up the volume — turns down the volume on a lot of different areas in the brain, and as a result, it has an outside, an outsized influence on our behavior. Mike Long: Yes, anticipation to cultivate your ability to just experience where you are. To put the first simple things. I put the phone down during dinner, turn it off when you're talking to somebody, look in their eyes and listen to what they say. Don't worry about what you're going to say next. Listen to be here now, as the phrase goes. The simple awareness that this exists at all is a profound gift that you can give yourself.
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Let's say that you're sitting in a butt stop killing time and you're reading the newspaper and you are reading about some Canadian trade agreement. Your dopamine is pretty much going to be shut down.
Mike Long: It's not an increase in the volume of dopamine. It's an increase in the activity associated with the dopamine you already have. In the same way antidepressant can work. Control dopamine takes the excitement and motivation provided by desire dopamine, evaluates options, selects tools, and plots a strategy to get what it wants. Author and journalist Adam Hochschild described it this way: “When I’m in a country radically different from my own, I notice much more. It is as if I’ve taken a mind-altering drug that allows me to see things I would normally miss. I feel much more alive.”
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From dopamine's point of view, it's not the having that matters. It's getting something – anything – that's new. From this understanding – the difference between possessing something versus anticipating it – we can understand in a revolutionary new way why we behave as we do in love, business, addiction, politics, religion – and we can even predict those behaviours in ourselves and others.The answer's dopamine. They're not able to transfer from that dopaminergic hope and anticipation into the here and now. So, what are these chemicals? For love, probably the most important chemical is oxytocin. That's a chemical many people have heard of. It's sometimes called the cuddle chemical.
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The surge of dopamine feels good, but it’s different from a surge of H&N pleasure, which is a surge of satisfaction. And that difference is key: the dopamine surge triggered by winning leaves us wanting more. Kaitlin Luna: So, it's not like the non sequiturs. That's just someone not completely making sense. Our brain simply loves to get high and for a long time we couldn´t get good stuff from the outer world ( it must have been terrible) when we were still stonagey and before, but we had those fine centers for own opioids, own cannabinoids, but especially the other hormones that aren´t so fancy. No matter where we look, to the love in our beds, to the digital shopping card, enemies and frenemies at work, what we love and hate about political parties, we are wired to react like animals. In schizophrenia the brain short-circuits, attaching salience to ordinary things that ought to be familiar and therefore ignored. Another name for this is low latent inhibition.
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Emotion is almost always a liability that interferes with calculated action. In fact, a common strategy of domination is to stimulate emotional reactions in one’s adversary to interfere with his ability to execute his plans. Chapter 1: Love............................................................................................................... 10 Models not only simplify our conception of the world; they also allow us to abstract, to take specific experiences and use them to craft broad, general rules.
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