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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Entropy Reduction a Subset of Dopaminergic Reduction?
When we see ourselves making progress, we get a bit of a dopamine hit. Would you say that the fundamental reason for the positively rewarding effect of that movement forward is that as I move forward towards a goal, I decrease the entropy that still remains between me and the goal? And so is even that reward is even that movement forward readable as an entropy reduction? Yeah, absolutely. Because I'm closer now. So there's, okay, okay. We should point out, you know, living creatures are always fighting entropy. They're trying to violate the laws of thermodynamics in some way or another.
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