Book summary - How We Decide - Jonah Lehrer

[keenman]

Chapter 1 - Quarterback in the pocket - “feelings”

·         reason doesn’t exist without emotions, “reason is the slave of the passions”

·         emotional brain has been refined by evolution over 100 000 000+ years

Chapter 2 - The predictions of dopamine - responding to negative + positive feedback

·         dopamine release is huge in

Comments

[jazzfanatic]

Very interesting.

But how the heck are you? :-)

[keenman]

I'm good. :)

[tkat]

I've been reading a bit about Buddhism lately. Did you know it's a belief system based entirely around rational study of the way the mind works?

This made me think of that.

[keenman]

Fascinating. I've been exposed to different facets of it from time to time; indeed, I even have read and own Siddharta. I'll have to study it more myself.