Andrew Huberman· PhD
Um, and we've begun to understand dopamine as a central player in the algorithms that your brain runs.
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Um, and we've begun to understand dopamine as a central player in the algorithms that your brain runs.
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Um but I think the um description of what dopamine does as a learning rule is pretty much true.
The algorithms are well understood. What wasn't well understood 30 years ago was the kind of remarkable things those same algorithms can learn.