#75 A Pattern of Habits - with Judson Brewer & Jerry Colonna
The Reboot Podcast
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The Evolution of Behavior
The brain's reward-based learning was set up so we'd remember where food is. Eric Kendell actually got the Nobel Prize for this I think in 2001 showing that this is evolutionary, evolutionarily conserved all the way back to the sea slug which only has 20,000 neurons. So what you're basically describing is a very, very primitive and if you will a pre-evolutionary biological structure designed to keep us alive as a species. Move towards things that fed us emotionally, physically, whatever is going on and move away from things that might kill us.
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