36 Quotes by Keith Henson

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.

The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.