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Jun 02, 2011, 09:08 AM
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Member Since: Mar 2010
Location: On the faultlines of the hybrid war
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just something I found on the Internets...
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Neuroscientists learn that joy comes through dancing, not drugs
Too little has been written about the biology of joy. Most of the articles in the medical literature about brains and emotions are devoted to explaining how we feel fear, anger, anxiety and despair. This is understandable, because we don't go to doctors when we are feeling optimistic, happy, and joyful. Most of what we know about the chemistry of our emotions has been learned from the disorders and the treatments of people who are sad and depressed.
But we can't just accept this and say, "Why bother?", because too many of us are seeking to find joy by taking chemicals. We need to ask, "What happens inside our brains when we experience happiness? Is there a way to stimulate pleasure in our brains, and what really happens when we do that?"
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So happiness is not made by a chemical. That would be the same as treating a violin sonata as nothing but rubbing horse hair on strings of cat gut in order to make a wooden box resonate. Violin makers have to know their materials to make one, and physicians have to know about the brain chemicals in order to treat patients, when the chemistry of brains has gone wrong, but they can't give us a pill to make us happy. We create our own joys, and we feel happiest in learning to trust each other.
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http://soma.berkeley.edu/archives/IE10/97.html
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