Hypothalamic Systems Mediate Hunger

There isn't a separate brain system for emotion and one for motivation right there they're just sort of rough category terms. Your hypothalamus sets your fundamental aim whatever that happens to be the basic aims and then as your and then that focuses your perception so if you're hungry and you go into the kitchen then what you tend to see are all those goals which is really this is a fascinating thing to know because it also sheds light on the relationship between ethics and perception in a fundamental way. The world's going to set itself up around your aim when you're hungry, I think it's a miraculous thing to know in some sense.