248: Earning esteem, feeling pride, and self-improvement
Beat Your Genes Podcast
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The Cost Benefit Analysis
A human is the most complex computational machine that has ever arrived at by evolution on this planet. The cost benefit analysis that the human is going through in its decision making is extraordinarily complex. Most of the explanatory power is probably percolating below the surface of your awareness as certain instincts get activated and you become aware of environmental contingencies around you. And the reason why you see repetitive patterns in people's behavior is because their behavior is in an equilibrium a. There's an equilibriumi in the cost benefit analysis.
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