A very interesting ted talk about sex, commitment, and love. AKA why casual sex is a scam, worth the watch.

Candid_Check_4843 · 2021-02-23T21:05:02+00:00

This is incredibly interesting and insightful, and so useful to everyday life! I appreciate that she cited research universities, professors, and papers. There may be some critiques of the studies, but I think the overall findings still hold. Shout-out to Florida State University :) Thanks so much for sharing!

Emergency-Feed8216 · 2021-02-23T21:25:36+00:00

I agree with granny. I'm a little more circumspect about the neurobiology model though. Science knows more about the universe and astrophysics than it does the human brain, plus the majority of studies on brain chemicals are monetized pursuits by drug companies to find drugs that can be shown (in not very clean trials) to do "something/anything" to neurotransmitters (not necessarily anything good) while also causing euphoria so the drug can be sold under a new patent as a "mood stabilizer," antipsychotic or "antidepressant."

But of the more than 100 known neurotransmitters, neuroscience knows very litttle about what they do, how they interact, etc. Any claim otherwise is a pretense or founded on the house of cards of existing-- and suspiciously monetized and agenda'ed-- drug company and commercial genetics industry studies.

Take for example the existing research on serotonin. It all comes to nothing more than a sales pitch for SSRI (serotonergic) antidepressants: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020392

As for the mood changing effects of certain drugs that are found to do something/anything to particlar neurotransmitters, research claims get very sketchy (read Grace Jackson's Drug-Induced Dementia for more information). For example, you know what feels better than depression and anxiety? Euphoria. You know what can cause euphoria? Mass brain cell death. In skewed drug company studies of atypical antipsychotics (that happen to randomly "do something" to dopamine), corrupt drug company researchers quite trickily mislabeled clinical evidence of mass cell death as "neurogenesis" or the supposedly positive creation/generation of new neurons when, in fact, what they were documenting was how the drug caused a type of pathological cell proliferation that occurs right before apoptosis-- when the cells die en masse. This would explain how the drugs initially cause euphoria (the same as in sniffing glue) that, with continued use, turns to emotional numbing and eventually movement disorders that represent larval dementia.

Then studies of vasopressin-- aka the antidiuretic hormone (among other things, it stops you from peeing yourself while you sleep)-- has been identified by drug companies and commercial geneticists as a potential target for new drug development when it was discovered that its expression was impaired in autism and dementia. Because of changes in ADH expression seen in studies of affection, someone decided that maybe, you know, vasopressin/ADH might relate to low empathy in autism/alzheimers and orher neurological conditions. This triggered wild speculations that genes regulating ADH expression could be used to identify "born psychopaths." Then the whole thing took a freaky turn into racist eugenics and "Minority Report" style pseudoscience. That's another digression but here are three articles showing the slipslide into racist agenda of vasopressin and related genetic research:

The "ruthlessness gene": https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080404/full/news.2008.738.html)

And how aggression in Afrikaners may trace back to "racial mixing" with slaves (shriek): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282122766_Allele_frequencies_of_AVPR1A_and_MAOA_in_the_Afrikaner_population

And about those "warrior gene" claims: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/code-rage-the-warrior-gene-makes-me-mad-whether-i-have-it-or-not/

Racist eugenics by any other name...

In short, I think we should be hesitant to put too much stock in neurobiological explanations for human behavior (because of the "house of cards" issue with existing claims about neurotransmitters and the suspicious agendas of commercial science research) and more stock in what granny says. IMHO.

surviveIIthrive · 2021-02-23T20:38:58+00:00

Cliffs?

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