Is every intelligent species going to be technological? It depends how fast they get how smart. Are they first intelligent enough to want an easier and longer life? Or are they first intelligent enough to decide that they don't need that and change their internal rewards instead?
I suspect that primary rewards are generated in the midbrain, but associated in the hippocampus and striatum with representations of situations and actions generated in the neocortex. We can learn to change both the associations and the cortical representations.
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Hmm, perhaps. But, I guess I don't see why associations, and representations, or how much we value or anticipate certain rewards would be subject to our conscious whims. That seems like a strange design feature. Would u code a robot to choose its own reward structure?
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The reward architecture appears to have secondary regulation, to adjust to shifts in metabolic and environmental baselines, and we can learn to make deliberate adjustments.
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For instance, we can learn to become entirely indifferent to rewards from sex and no longer anticipate such rewards, or we dissociate the self and the decision making from such signals, or we can learn to hallucinate more amazing sex than there could be in reality, etc.
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