On today’s episode, Chris sits down with pioneering computational neuroscientist Dr. Read Montague (Director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research at Virginia Tech) to break down how our brains use dopamine and serotonin to calculate expectations, navigate uncertainty, and drive human behavior.

They dig into "Reward Prediction Errors," how your brain shifts between "explorer" and "exploiter" modes, the hidden neurochemical impact of social media, and how modern AI algorithms (like Reinforcement Learning) are actually modeled after the human dopamine system.

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