Andrew Huberman· PhD
Dopamine is really about motivation and desire and movement. And it makes sense why motivation, desire, and movement would be linked up through a common, in this case neuromodulator or chemical like dopamine.
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Dopamine is really about motivation and desire and movement. And it makes sense why motivation, desire, and movement would be linked up through a common, in this case neuromodulator or chemical like dopamine.
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it might be that the pursuit of water the pursuit of mates the pursuit of food the pursuit of shelter which is what these dopamine circuits evolved under the constraints of
these circuits that we're talking about evolved for the pursuit of particular rewarding activities mainly centered around food and reproduction okay and keeping a safe avoiding extremes of temperature Etc