Thinking Psychologist

S01E4: Experience The Matrix


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Lord Buddha in the 4th century BC delivered preaching of four novel truths to his disciples, and it is believed that the disciples received instantaneous enlightenment. What he said was that you cannot find permanent lasting happiness from impermanent things. To be precise “The suffering is endless.” The thousand-dollar experiment shows how dopamine rush [Instant rewards] can we simulated, induced, and further deprived for a test subject. This experiment is linked to a thought experiment that asks a question that why does the pleasure keep evaporating?


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