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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Dopamine and the Cocaine Addiction

If you dose yourself with cocaine, you can produce a cocaine-seeking narrative that's instantiated in your brain. That's actually what constitutes the addiction in some sense. So do you want to elaborate on the rule of dopamine? I'd be more than happy to hear what you have to say about that. Dopamine plays the role in the brain as not of sending information from this neuronal structure to this set of neurons,. but greasing the pathway by setting excitability of the game.

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