Evolution of Complex Behavior, Perception, Cognition, Consciousness & the Brain | Paul Cisek | 107
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Hypothalamus and Circadian Rhythms
The hypothalamus has a lot of endocrine controls built into it. When things are good, when you're in a good state in the world within your environment, you kind of want to stay there. But if the local environment becomes depleted, maybe because you've sucked up all the good nutrients or maybe not that great to start with, then you want to go somewhere else. And so one proposal, this I get from reading Thomas Hills and others, is that one of the things about foraging is there's the world near you, and thenthere's the world far away. The thing that's near you is the kind of thing that you can ingest by just like sucking in water.
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