Is The Meaning of Life Black and White?

If you are still searching for the meaning of life, the answer is already in.

It is easy but not simple because it is based on your personal definition of pleasure.

Our human purpose (meaning) is finding pleasure on the one hand, and

avoiding the potential for pain on the other.

Can Homo sapiens find pleasure in wealth accumulation for its own sake?

How about wealth avoidance? Some view pleasure as wearing torn clothing and feeding themselves a minimum number of calories daily. They will not taint their lives in the pursuit of filthy lucre. Monks, Nuns and philosophers tread this path.

The middle ground towards wealth as the source of pleasure is seen in scholars and scientists who work in the theoretic area; they know financial success is in the concrete consumer area, but their pleasure is in their work.

Breakthrough Research

Dr. Mathias Pessiglione started a study while at the Wellcome Trust for Neuroimaging in London, England on rewards and motivation. Presented at the

American Academy of Neurology. For the first time evidence is offered, indicating

Dopamine affects the Striatum, the part of our brain stimulated by rewards.

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Every choice we make is with an expectation of a reward, receiving a jolt of pleasure. We are not different from the laboratory rat who work for cookies,

and sweet juice; our pleasure reward is a jolt of dopamine to our striatum.

We are non-consciously driven by our instincts and emotions, they have survival value so we can have progeny. Our prefrontal cortex, a relay in the reward circuit specializing in planning, organizing and motivating action, consciously drives us. Both are program us to find pleasure and avoid pain.

There are two neurotransmitters, (specialized chemical messengers that excite or inhibit, and influence our behavior, feelings and mood). One is Dopamine and the

other is Serotonin. Both affect the Striatum structure in our brain. So what?

Remember Dopamine (no dope), the pleasure hormone, and Serotonin (from serum); both are deeply involved in our learning ability, memory, sleep cycle, and potential cycles of depression.

Many of the drugs prescribed by physicians and other illegal ones, affect the levels of dopamine in our brain. Drugs change how we feel about success and failure. It requires motivation to chase after pleasure and to avoid pain.

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Too little we are (inhibited);or too much (excited); dopamine offers pleasure as an incentive to repeat both positive and negative behaviors. Addicts (freaks) have overloaded pleasure-seeking striatums. But so do success-seekers.

If the drug taken is a dopamine-blocker, we lose motivation to seek pleasure. If the

drug raises dopamine-levels, there is a 95% higher motivation toward success and

wealth-seeking.

Key Fact: your brain Striatum (striped) is stimulated by rewards, the potential for rewards, and desire for pleasure.

Finally, remember that serotonin is a like the brake in your car, it inhibits. It also

causes satiety, knowing when your gas tank is filled. Serotonin works in tandem with the release of Dopamine. Google: Parkinson, Schizophrenia and Dopamine.

Trial-and-error is the primary learning tool of auto-didactic folks (scholars). Your

hippocampus, the site of your new memory circuits and retrieval of old recall, preserves your agreeable memories.

When you are learning to use Point and Click, your hippocampus preserves your errors as negative feedback to remind you the next time, what does not work. It rewards your success by a sense of pleasure to insure you repeat the correct answer

the following instance. We call it reinforcement.

Finally, this research show us that Dopamine drives us to get what we want, however it does not cause us to avoid our fears, anxieties and stress.

Sensory Integration

For a century science believed each of our five gross senses are each processed in a

distinct area of our brain. Visual cortex, auditory cortex, and motor cortex (kinesthetic) enhance learning and memory.

Christoph Kayser at Max Planck Institute in Germany, offered his research in the

February 21 issue of the journal for the Society for Neuroscience. He offered proof

the isolation of senses has never been the case.

Dr. Kayser used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to indicate

our auditory and visual senses act better as a team than separately. The original

work on monkey brains applies equally to Homo sapiens.

When humans watch the lips of a speaker, our comprehension is enhanced.

Scientists are now investigating the basis of creativity and genius, and the cause

of schizophrenia as an integration of multiple senses.

Practical Learning and Reading

Fresh Pursuit Tracking and Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex are one and the same. These

are intentional (voluntary) movements of your head to center words on the fovea of

your retina for visual clarity.

Snailers (average college graduates) read one multi-syllable word at a time, no more

than 200 words per minute with about 70% comprehension. They use Tunnel

Vision, also known as Foveal (sharp) sight, and ignore their peripheral vision.

Fovea is Latin meaning pit; and located in the center of the macular, part of the

retina of your eyes.

When you intentionally move your head in small movements left-to-right as you

read, you are centering your eyes in the foveal region of your retina for your

sharpest vision of the words. So?

It permits you to use your broad vision (peripheral) outside of the center, to absorb

multiple words simultaneously. The width of your foveal vision is six letters; the

width of your peripheral vision is 36 letters wide. The average English word is

six-letters wide; reading one word at a time is not a coincidence, but based on training in the third grade and reinforce daily since then.

You are capable of reading up to six-words at a time; do the math. Thousands of

graduates are satisfied with reading and remember three-words at a time. They discover how to and train themselves in reading three books, articles and reports in the time they used read only one. It is a major competitive advantage and places our

graduates in the fast-lane for school and career success.

See ya,

Author of Speed Learning for Professionals, published by Barron's; partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading, graduating two million, including the White House staffs of four U.S. Presidents.

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