/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11073213
sex

Killing a big elephant or tiger

>>11073213
By not dying

>>11073213
You don't get a dopamine spike out of direct entertainment. You get it from the expectation of reward, and if that entertainment stops being rewarding and becomes a default habit (which is the version of entertainment you're currently referring to), you're getting no dopamine out of that. Dopamine is supposed to keep you focused on a slightly long-term task in the grand expectation of the eventual reward, it is not something that you receiving out of getting likes on an instagram post or (You)s on 4chan. You get a dopamine spike while cooking your cake, while lifting for the pump to impress your date an hour later, while opening 25 tabs to find the ultimate clip to blow a load to, or while updating your dropshipping business which will result in greener charts tomorrow. You do not get it by scrolling this shithole or by playing games, because in both of these cases, you eventually get depressed and would rather kill yourself than spending another 16 hour day of doing that, which is a very obvious indicator that you're getting zero satisfaction out of it and are doing it merely because you have nothing else to do.

Stop believing everything you read online, especially if it's the modern circlejerk around self help that throws around neurotransmitters to pretend that there's science backing up their arbitrary rants about behavior.

>>11073226
Modern games are skinner boxes so yeah, they definitely stimulate your reward system and condition you to want more, in fact they are engineered specifically for that.
Games with virtual hierarchy (e-sport games, MMO, etc...) are especially advanced on this point and tend to be the polarize most of the addicted players.

>>11073226
>dopamine evolved to make cavemen better at baking cakes

>>11073247
Read again nigger.

>>11073213
sex and they probably made up games to play with friends.

>>11073213
sex, food, hunting

>>11073213
Sex. Murdering rival cave tribes to death. Herbalistic drugs

>>11073226
10/10

expectation of reward and risk of not getting the reward are where it is at

>>11073355
You one of those orgasm denial freaks?

>>11073226
>cooking
>cake

>>11073213
>dopamine fix
No such thing, stop thinking it's some kind of drug rather than a pathway utilized whenever it is optimal.

>>11073226
>Stop believing everything you read online, especially if it's the modern circlejerk around self help that throws around neurotransmitters to pretend that there's science backing up their arbitrary rants about behavior.
after that last part I'm literally unable to distinguish if it's genuine or a troll

>>11073249
yeah, exactly, it said cooking not baking

>>11073213
Eating, fucking, killing

rape

>>11073226
scrolling 4chan is putting in the work to find the funny post or get the (you) later on

>>11073213
They had a simpler life and simple pleasures
Sex, living, chasing a big elephant, communal life, eating a good meal with the tribe, and when they had more time, making a necklace of pearls/ivory for she-grug

>>11073535
>>11073533
double dubs?

one a stretch one a short. one right after the other.

unique, and impressive!

>>11073213
christianity.

>>11073226
>You do not get it by scrolling this shithole or by playing games, because in both of these cases, you eventually get depressed and would rather kill yourself than spending another 16 hour day of doing that, which is a very obvious indicator that you're getting zero satisfaction out of it and are doing it merely because you have nothing else to do.
If this is true, why do we repeat it 16 hours every single day then?

>>11073213
From their everyday pleasures of eating, wanking, hunting, singing, dancing, banter with their mates. Dopamine and the like aren't exclusively produced by 21st century stuff that old people love to hate on like coffee and blideo blames

>>11073226
What happens when you expect a reward and never get it?

>>11073213
>dopamine fix
How is your psychology major going?

>>11073226
>while lifting for the pump to impress your date an hour later
Not everyone can build muscle