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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Cocaine Addiction and the Collapse of a Hierarchy

Cocaine addiction prioritizes the microbehavors associated with cocaine self-administration, over all other potential behavioural microstates. And it does that neurologically. On the serotonin front, so here's a pattern of depressive cognition and you can think about it as the collapse of a hierarchy. Each level of the hierarchy has to be protected against the propagation of error messages from a lower level. The higher the serotonin level corresponding to higher social status, by the way, the more error has to accrue before a message will propagate up the hierarchical system.

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