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When I started this work the prevailing view about punishment was that punishment was a moral behavior—a moralistic or altruistic punishment where you're suffering a cost to enforce a social norm for the greater good. It turned out that serotonin was an interesting chemical to be studying in this context because serotonin has this long tradition of being associated with prosocial behavior. If you boost serotonin function, this makes people more prosocial. If you deplete or impair serotonin function, this makes people antisocial. If you go by the logic that punishment is a moral thing to do, then if you enhance serotonin, that should increase punishment. What we actually see in the lab is the opposite effect. If you increase serotonin people punish less, and if you decrease serotonin people punish more.
Molly Crockett: "The Neuroscience of Moral Decision Making" | Edge.org
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Chris and I are traveling to Montana with some friends riding up ahead, and maybe headed farther than that. Plans are deliberately indefinite, more to travel than to arrive anywhere. We are just vacationing. Secondary roads are preferred. Paved county roads are the best, state highways are next. Freeways are the worst. We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on “good” rather than “time” and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
Four different things in our environment promote change. Variability – I can’t keep using the same movement solution because things around me are changing. Instability – I need to change something because I keep getting knocked out of my movement pattern. Constraints – I must change because there is something in my environment that is making it such that my movement solution doesn’t work. Overload – the force and/or timing demands of the movement are increased such that I need to move differently.
Learning to Optimize Movement
Rob Gray
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