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Kimmi
Therapy Thursdays
Tags: book, brain, dopamine, how we decide, jonah lehrer, monkeys, neurons, prediction, reward
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Kimmi
Therapy Thursdays
Tags: book, brain, dopamine, how we decide, jonah lehrer, monkeys, neurons, prediction, reward
Ok! Ok! You convinced me! I’m now like the 303rd person on the hold list at NYPL. This does sound really fascinating.
Emily, I love that you check out books from the library! I want to get a library membership! I don’t have one! And yeah, it is fascinating. I just started reading it and am obviously LOVING it, as you could tell from my high-pitched voice!
I’m appalled at how distracted I am by the cleavage in this video! Impressive. But I agree that the book sounds really good – sounds kind of related to Daniel Gilbert’s Happiness. Some of my comp students this year have decided to write about endorphins and dopamine, so I’ve been learning enough to grade them properly, and enough to know how little I know.
I know! I didn’t realize how much cleavage I was sporting until after the fact, but it was late and I was tired and I didn’t feel like re-shooting and reading from his book again. Sorry for getting all porno on you guys! And yeah, the book is great. I’m not far into it, but I’m excited to keep going! I have Happiness, but haven’t read it yet. Next on my list! Thanks!
I’ll be honest: I refuse to learn anything about neuroscience. It’s just this block I have. I studied political philosophy pretty intensely in college, and neuroscience just seems to invalidate the premise of a noble mind. I turn off neuroscience television shows, eschew books and articles, and fast-forward Therapy Thursdays videos on the subject until the end. It’s just one of those things.
Ethan, first of all, I would expect nothing but honesty from you. That’s how you roll. Second, really, dude? You have turned a blind eye to a particular kind of science? I find this fascinating. I get that you don’t like all the mumbo jumbo God stuff or when the God people trying to prove God through soft science or quantum physics or whatever, but Neuroscience? Really? Why? You want to hang onto your support of the Noble Mind, okay, but to shut out information that actually could enhance your belief system seems small-minded. Plus, what’s the harm in a little information? Can’t you read about something or hear about something and then decide it doesn’t matter to you. Part of having strong beliefs is the ability to hold onto to them in the face of opposition. I think you’re going to have to get over your block and let some neuroscience into your heart! Well, not your heart, but your mind.
Hey, no, I wasn’t suggesting you cover up! I’m delighted you didn’t reshoot – part of the charm of these vlogs is that you show up and just be who you are.
As for Ethan’s comment, I’m OK with neuroscience, but I have precisely the same style of blocks against various subjects: graduate degrees in business, for example, and unironic uses of the word “bourgeois.” The one prevents me from engaging as deeply as I’d like with Marxism and its successor splinters, and the other with those believed to understand how an economy works, so I know it’s a bad thing. But it’s extremely difficult to resist.