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.
This is not theoretic or hypothetical. Buddhist sutra training reduces anticipated reward and downregulates associations with actual rewards, tantra messes with how to get how much reward, Zen changes your model of what is actually going on, and Kundalini is full-on wireheading.
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Yeah, I concur w/ the empirical phenomena. Just puzzled by it on theoretical grounds. And positing that maybe it ain’t hacking our reward system but works bc it actually helps us attain rewards, Eg by organizing our thoughts/helping us relax?
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It definitely helps the monks feel better, but I also notice that they don't seem to have a lot of offspring :)
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