Comments on: The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good

By: The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View | KurzweilAI

The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist’s View | KurzweilAI — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:57:32 +0000

[...] ViewJuly 21, 2011 by David J. LindenDavid J. Linden is the author of a new book, The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, V…. He is a Professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Chief [...]

By: MysticMonkeyGuru

MysticMonkeyGuru — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:56:16 +0000

Kurzweil got pwned by this guy, and that’s a good thing.

By: The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make LSD, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good | AI Revolution

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:24:10 +0000

[...] or doing good deeds — the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. Source: http://www.kurzweilai.net, via KurzweilAI » [...]

By: David J. Linden | KurzweilAI

David J. Linden | KurzweilAI — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:31:41 +0000

[...] communication and serves as the Chief Editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology.He is the author of The Compass of Pleasure, published April 14, 2011, which explores the biology of vice and virtue in the brain’s [...]