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It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward. This statement asserts causation where only co
by thenerdfiles 11y ago
It makes it possible to work on stuff you don't particularly enjoy by focussing on an expected long-term reward.
This statement asserts causation where only correlation, particular of neural correlates, only justifies.
That part of the brain plays a role in the process of expectation — it does not, by itself, make it possible. Language, other brain functions, social inertia, etc. makes expectation possible, and there is a critical question of the content of expectation.
Cannabis obviously increases appetite and drives a greater motivation for munchies. Therefore, the reduction of dopeminergic brain-activity alone does not isolate cannabis as the defeater of all motivation but rather of certain kinds of motivation dependent on pleasure-data. Obviously what if I derive pleasure from making logical deductions or from reading? What of children who are synesthes, and who mix up stimulae as a neurotypicality modality that is atypical?
- _98fj 11y agoThat is true. Once a rather famous illustrator told me that he couldn't have done a certain ad showing a lion because … "Drawing hairs for hours and hours was just too boring, so I smoked". In my experience cannabis especially lowers the motivation for physical activity, but also the "motivation" to process and work on bad emotions.