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via MSNBC
If you've ever had a headache while trying to choose between a sure thing and a more risky option with higher rewards, it might be because conflicting parts of your brain are waging war against each other.
A new study found regions in the brain that are active when a person decides whether to exploit a known commodity or explore a potentially better option.
The finding, published in the June 15 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that in order to explore new and potentially rewarding options, the brain must override the desire for immediate profit.More here
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Interesting...
...in order to explore new... options, the brain must override the desire for immediate profit.
...unless you could trick your brain into associating the seeking of long-term profit with some more immediate benefit. In other words, make your exploration of new ideas immediately profitable and your capital innards will be at peace.
For example, embarking on a hellish exercise regime would be more rapidly benficial (and so easier to be arsed with) if it were treated as a justification for vigourous gloating. Or rewarded with cigarettes or something.
I'm sure there's a good method for getting me off my arse in here somewhere. Just needs refining... -
Reminds me of that psych-game they play with kids where they offer them the 5 sweets now in front of them, OR 7 sweets in ten minutes ONLY IF they can stave off the desire to chomp the lot for that long.
The experimenting adults leave the room, and the kid battles with his consciounce, and the luscious looking delicacies before him, for usually about 1 minute. The kid cracks, chomps the sweets. Fuck the extra reward.
I remember an alternative to this experiment where the returning adult simply asked the kid if they had managed to stave off their desires. Most kids lied through their teeth and got the extra sweets as well...
Humans are born to deceive, especially themselves. Perhaps the headache is like a computer getting stuck in a infinite feedback loop. Leave the loop going long enough and any well maintained computer will overheat. How do we get over infinite loops? Bad faith -
You've just summed up Psychiatry in a few lines, instant gratification for me, I might be dead in a moment.
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it all comes down to a matter of time perception then. Delete the human shiort term memory completely, so nothing becomes registered properly in consciousness until a few hours/days/weeks after an event.
then we'd all have to think ahead a little more... Suppose it would create more headaches though.
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