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Gordon Brander • Noosphere at Summer of Protocols
We are our own auditors.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Consistent with the lived experience of people in recovery, truth-telling may change the brain, allowing us to be more aware of our pleasure-pain balance and the mental processes driving compulsive overconsumption, and thereby change our behavior.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Debates about differences between motivation and pleasure notwithstanding, dopamine is used to measure the addictive potential of any behavior or drug. The more dopamine a drug releases in the brain’s reward pathway (a brain circuit that links the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex), and the faster it releases
... See moreAnna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
began to think again about something that James Williams wrote: “I used to think there were no great political struggles left…. How wrong I was. The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time. Its success is the prerequisite for the success of virtually all other struggles.”