"In animals with hierarchical societies, aggressive behavior is thought to help individuals gain and maintain higher social status. It has been shown that aggressive behavior, especially the experience of winning, has rewarding properties in animals and repeated aggressive experience may lead to compulsive, pathological aggression that is highly reinforcing."
From the 2017, uh, molecular neuroimmunosociobiology survey paper Aggression, Social Stress, and the Immune System in Humans and Animal Models by Takahashi, Flanigan, McEwen & Russo – https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00056
(These are serious, credentialed people. The tl;dr is that "losing" is proinflammatory and subjugating others is antiinflammatory. In the brain. Which is behavior-modifying.)
(We are all coated in urocanic acid. Right now. We secrete it. ahhaha. what!! And. It isomerizes in UV light and plops into the 5-HT2A receptor and downregulates inflammation.)
(and having had twice the experience of autoimmune related illnesses making people close to me very aggressive until diagnosed and treated; and it was 1:1 always with things that made inflammation go up, aggression went up. In retrospect. And the opposite: things that reduced aggression always have an inflammation-reducing aspect)
All of the "surprising" stuff they do is because they reduce neuroinflammation. Imo. As far as I can tell from the literature.
I'm fairly sure that part of the reason they reduce neuroinflammation is because of pulmonary GLP-1 mechanisms. (Lung and brain are quite intimately connected, as is inflammation to the other two. As well as the gut. And… metabolism.)
Neuroinflammation is very behavior-modifying.
(Neuroinflammation kind of makes sense as an untamperable side-channel of information for neuronal processes – out of band; Protective. Can't think yourself to death.)
There's tons of papers to read. You wouldn't believe how much accurate and correct and actionable and predictive scientific information exists that nobody reads.
Read primary sources. Anyone can read. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't read. Least of all yourself.
Or! a "handheld gaming" device that runs mainline Linux.
Setting aside what they're for, Linux handheld gaming devices are kind of a perfect fit for a minor "house computer". Made cheap by commodification. Flexible. Sadly no GPIO in these I think but tack on an RP2350 and we're golden.
Strip or modify the chassis and embed them hidden or with the screen facing out. Kachinng.
We're unconscious of how unconscious we are?, and it's good to… what's the term, suffer gladly and give gladly? To own one's unconsciousness and raise it, and expect and see others' unconscious going about major things in life - to see it coldly as well as warmly.
I find this is more accurate and safer than assuming consciousness in everyone, and it also reveals so clearly people who do cast that light; and see.
It's less desolate! I promise! Sounds like it's worse but it's not. That's the tricky-get-into-words part, you know?
I have no conscious awareness of what I wrote, I just tried to be Peter Wattsy, haha
(kidding!
It's oversold, or beautiful artistic expression of something. Bleak, yes; Stark; Also beautiful.
The thing it expresses is… a thing. We're not at all as conscious as… we think?, as we portray ourselves?, to others and/or ourselves? And it's magical to view people as… partially unconscious to a significant degree while also loving them and with respect.)
I see people differently after reading Blindsight; The picture is much darker, concretely more accurate, with what light is there geared to all hell and so much brighter. I'm better for it and at a greater peace.
"I AM genuinely glad this person is having fun with the little world they’re creating, and that they’re bothering to share it."
What's with the ridiculous condescension?
I'm also glad that little person you typed your little comments with your fingers! That you created such a fun little comment! And that you shared it with us. Wowie! Good job.
Haha yes! Psychiatric medication, that purely abstract pill that does not affect the physical body in any way, only enters the mind!
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Serotonin is among other things a nausea and thermoregulation neurotransmitter, and has to do with cognition. Most serotonin in the body is synthesized in the gut – a highly enervated endothelial membrane – transported by platelets, and metabolized in the lung.
SARS-CoV-2 is known to damage endothelium, known to cause really weird platelet and blood clotting issues like platelet necroptosis and infection and alteration of bone marrow platelet progenitor cells, known to cause lung injury. In a whole bunch of ways.