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Flow & Transcendence: Exploring the Intersection of Flow, Well-Being, and Transcendent Experiences | Flow Research Collective Radio

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The Goal Directed System

Mihai chicka: People use goals in a different sense. The brain is always trying to predict what's going to happen next and how much energy do i need for it, right? Where's the organism going next? How much energy do I need for the challenge? And we get prediction errors, basically, is this right or is this wrong? If our prediction is wrong, the dopemen goes away. But this happens every mill a second that we're alive. So when i say we're gold directed machines, i mean at a really foundational level. Unless you're going to by past the basil ganglia and the entire dob mean system that's attached to it, there

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