AI Snips
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Dopamine's Role
- Dopamine motivates us to seek rewards, not just experience pleasure.
- A rat without dopamine receptors will starve even with food nearby.
Pleasure-Pain Balance
- Pleasure and pain are co-located in the brain, working like a balance.
- For every pleasure, our brains create an equal and opposite pain.
Overabundance and Addiction
- Our brains, wired for scarcity, struggle with today's overabundance.
- Constant access to pleasure makes us more susceptible to addiction.