You Can’t Always Want What You Like
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Evolutionary Design of the Brain
Evolution did not prioritize the abundance of pleasure mechanisms in the brain, but instead focused on survival and propagation of genes. The brain's pleasure areas are clustered in small sections, indicating a scarcity of neural real estate for sensory pleasure. Natural selection emphasizes 'wanting' over 'liking,' as wanting is crucial for survival due to the experience of craving it generates.
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