CNu and 50 Cent - The Dopamine Theory

cnulan said...
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One of the primary "feel good" drugs is dopamine.

"In previous research that had focused solely on drug abusers, Volkow and other researchers found that many addicts had a deficiency in a particular type of receptor for dopamine, one of the brain's feel-good chemicals. Most drugs of abuse reward their takers—and reinforce the habit—by flooding the brain with more dopamine than normal. So, the researchers theorized that some drug users become addicts as a way of making up for a shortage of dopamine receptors."

"This is consistent with the idea that cravings of all kinds—whether for food, drugs, or designer shoes—have common mechanisms,"

Up thread, I was also compelled to address the effect of money and how the monetary control system is not simply an intellectual or ideological construct, rather that its efficacy as a governance tool is also rooted in its drug-like and addicting qualities.

Begs the question whether the "ethnies as species" cognitive error (racism) is also at its basis - simply another addicting behavior?

I haven't developed this proof yet, though I have some nMRI data highly suggestive in that direction.

Oh yeah, I've been thinking about this topic for a minute or two, because it has vastly greater explanatory power than the comparatively fragmentary WSD or the even more fragmentary stuff that Skippy is so excitedly yet painfully naively on about...,

nice added irony too when considered in the context of some of those "dopest joints on the planet" digital brain candies you set out in the vestibule for visitors right....,

Poetry: Maximum Abbreviation With Minimum Loss of Meaning

Fiddy. A Practical application of The Dopamine Theory

I don't know shit about gymnastics
but I summersault bricks (kilos)
Black Talons start flying, when a nigga flip
Check my logic:
smokers don't like seeds
in their weed,
shit, send me them seeds
I'll grow 'em what they need
Them ain't chia pet plants in the crib,
thats Chronic.
And I'm selling it.
500 a pop god damn it.
... I sold everything, I'm a hustler.
I know how to grind,
Step on grapes
put 'em water
and tell you its wine