The pleasure center : trust your animal instincts /
Many people believe that pleasure and desire are obstacles to reasonable and intelligent behavior. In The Pleasure Center, Morten Kringelbach reveals that what we desire, what pleases us--in fact, our most base, animalistic tendencies--are actually very important sources of information. They motivat...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- The challenge: know thyself?
- Decisions : social intelligence in the world
- Consciousness : artificial pleasures and desires in other bodies?
- Emotions : happiness, fear, and trembling
- Sensation : making sense
- Memories : to forget is to remember
- Learning : emotions and thoughts
- Madness : malignant desires
- Stimulants : pain and pleasure, food and drugs
- Sex : reproducing love
- Future considerations : where do we go from here?
