Neuron tour - axon, dendrite, soma, myelin, synapse
Motivation: Why do we do anything?
a really reductionist & materialist idea
Olds and Milner (1954) make a cool mistake
Self-stimulation in rats
Will you kill yourself for pleasure?
Is all pleasure the same type of pleasure?
nature and nurture
Thorndike, his cat, and the law of effect
reinforcement
preparedness
consummatory and appetitive behaviors and pleasures
drive reduction theory
Where do emotions come into all of this?
from hunger to thou shalt not murder
Empathy
How does it work?
What is it good for?
Why isn't the world a better place?
Is there a drive toward death (Freud ‚ thanatos)
Is aggression a drive?
Life is complicated (yeah, I know you know that)
A math model of why you eat when you are not hungry (sort of)