Dopamine Games: Mentalbators, Mentalbating, and Mentalbation
“Everything we do, we do to protect or improve dopamine flow.” – Charles Lyell When sex becomes an end unto itself, to trigger dopamine with the expectation of titillating sexual organs, it’s called...
View ArticleDopamine Games: What Problems? What Disease? What Pandemic?
“My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the stubbornness...
View ArticleHow Dopamine Games Keep Neuroscientists From Learning About Dopamine
“We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.” – Richard Leakey As mentioned in a previous...
View ArticleDopamine Games: An Introduction
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein People play dopamine games for the same reasons chimpanzees play dopamine games. Some...
View ArticleDopamine Games: Straw Man Arguments
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” – Jonathan Swift Straw Man Arguments is a popular dopamine game that employs an obvious ploy — misrepresenting...
View ArticleHow Good Guys Can Stop Helping Bad Guys
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf Nothing will change until the good guys admit they’re helping the bad guys. The bad guys aren’t...
View ArticleDopamine Games: Everybody’s Doing It
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Dopamine games are illogical, irrational, and dishonest strategies played to trigger dopamine and protect dopamine flow against...
View ArticleA Confederacy of Addicts
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” – Groucho Marx It doesn’t take a genius to understand how dopamine turns seemingly rational humans into irrational...
View ArticleChapter 10: Dopamine Games – The Great DIMwit Addiction Hustle
Even the NIDA director doesn’t understand addictions “We can do much to reduce the shame and the stigma of drug addiction, once medical professionals, and we as a society, understand that addiction is...
View ArticleDopamine Games: Mentalbators, Mentalbating, and Mentalbation
“Everything we do, we do to maintain dopamine flow.” – Charles Lyell When sex becomes an end unto itself, to trigger dopamine with the expectation of titillating sexual organs, it’s called...
View ArticleDopamine Games: Straw Man Arguments
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.” – Jonathan Swift Straw Man Arguments is a popular dopamine game that employs an obvious ploy — misrepresenting...
View ArticleHow Good Guys Can Stop Helping Bad Guys
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf Nothing will change until the good guys admit they’re helping the bad guys. The bad guys aren’t...
View ArticleChapter XX: Dopamine Games – Everybody’s Doing It
When nice people do bad things “Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Dopamine games are illogical, irrational, and dishonest strategies played to trigger dopamine...
View ArticleChapter 14: How Dopamine Games Keep Neuroscientists From Learning About...
The Leading Cause of Self-deception “We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.”– Richard...
View ArticleChapter 13: Dopamine Games – What Problems? What Disease? What Pandemic?
Group Denial “My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd. What do you have to say about the principal philosophers of this academy who are filled with the...
View ArticleChapter 12: Dopamine Games – The Great DIMwit Addiction Hustle
Even the NIDA director doesn’t understand addictions “We can do much to reduce the shame and the stigma of drug addiction, once medical professionals, and we as a society, understand that addiction is...
View ArticleChapter 11: An Introduction to Dopamine Games
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” – Albert Einstein DIMwits play dopamine games for the same reasons chimpanzees play dopamine games. Some...
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