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Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
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Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#12RIP. She should be credited when someone at OpenAI introduces the concept of hormones to neural networks.
That's the dream!
There's the "cold" self-referential I, and the "warm" embodied self that persists. Hormones go a long way towards building that second self.
Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#13Her TED talk is legendary. Thank you.
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Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#15Her TED talk is legendary. Thank you.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/helen_fisher
Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise:
> Even after all her years of research, she’s still excited by love. “You’re trying to win life’s greatest prize — which is a life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the future..."
How novel! I met my now-partner a long time ago and we quickly agreed neither of us wants kids. 16 years later, we're pretty happy with each other. I guess you could call this a powerful extinctive adaptation.
(1) https://ideas.ted.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-lucky-in-love/
Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.ted.com/speakers/helen_fisher
Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise: > Even after all her years of research, she’s still excited by love. “You’re trying to win life’s greatest prize — which is a life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the future..." How novel! I met my now-partner a long time ago and we quickly agreed neither of us wants kids. 16 years later, we're pretty happy with each other. I guess you could call this a…
The fact that humans took control over the most fundamental evolutionary adaptation and are capable of satisfying our urge to have sex without it resulting in children will cause the end of our species maybe.
Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise: > Even after all her years of research, she’s still excited by love. “You’re trying to win life’s greatest prize — which is a life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the future..." How novel! I met my now-partner a long time ago and we quickly agreed neither of us wants kids. 16 years later, we're pretty happy with each other. I guess you could call this a…
The fact that humans took control over the most fundamental evolutionary adaptation and are capable of satisfying our urge to have sex without it resulting in children will cause the end of our species maybe.
More likely, it will wipe out the subpopulation that don't value children enough to overcome that.
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Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#19RIP. She should be credited when someone at OpenAI introduces the concept of hormones to neural networks.
I'll take one GPT on steroids, please
Re: Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that humans took control over the most fundamental evolutionary adaptation and are capable of satisfying our urge to have sex without it resulting in children will cause the end of our species maybe.
More likely, it will wipe out the subpopulation that don't value children enough to overcome that.
Eh, people with kids are functionally “wiped out” within a few generations too.
By the 6th generation of offspring, there is only ~1.56% left of “you”. 200 years is the blink of an eye, historically speaking.
If you yearn for legacy.. be a writer, teacher, researcher. Zeno is passing on his thinking some 2400 years after his death.