Pursuing pleasure automatically through the limbic system, without managing it with the prefrontal cortex, can lead to addiction and negative outcomes. — Whalespan
Pursuing pleasure automatically through the limbic system, without managing it with the prefrontal cortex, can lead to addiction and negative outcomes.
⚠ High risk
We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Pleasure happens to you. Pleasure is happening automatically when you touch certain levers. You know the the vententral tegmental area, the vententral stratum part of the lyic system. And if you tap that over and over and over and over again, if your goal in life is to pursue pleasure, you're not going to arrive at happiness. you're going to wind up in in in in rehab basically cuz that's the secret to getting addicted to stuff.”
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