We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.
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Creative says we can't extract traits from population samples. Which would be news to most folk. Is that a position you also mean to defend here?
We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.
The child cannot simply acknowledge the vegetables as having good value. He needs to actually want these vegetables in order to see them as something good. — TranscendedRealms
You can't have a subjective when there is an objective. That all goes back to what I said before. There is an objective form of sight which is the real sight that allows us to see objects. — TranscendedRealms
When I said that logical and rational thought processes alone (value judgments) do not allow us to see value in our lives, I am saying that the only thing that can allow us to see value is a force/energy, if you will. It is like a divine force that is literally intrinsic goodness itself. That force would be our positive emotions. — TranscendedRealms
We have found a special hedonic hotspot that is crucial for reward 'liking' and 'wanting' (and codes reward learning too). The opioid hedonic hotspot is shown in red above. It works together with another hedonic hotspot in the more famous nucleus accumbens to generate pleasure 'liking'.
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