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PLEASURE GENERATORS in the Brain: The Neuroscience of Pleasure Explained

Brave new world let’s create happiness for everyone by putting microelectrode arrays in our brains but be careful not to create a situation like death by ecstacy by Larry Niven.

In the brain, pleasure is generated by a handful of brain regions called, “hedonic hotspots.” If you were to stimulate these regions directly, you would likely feel pleasurable sensations. However, not all of the hedonic hotspots are the same–some generate the raw sensations of pleasure whereas others are responsible for consciously interpreting and elaborating on the raw pleasure produced by the other hotspots. In this video, in addition to exploring the neuroscience of pleasure, we’ll see how understanding pleasure, happiness, meaning, and purpose can help us live better lives.

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Chapters.
00:00 Hedonic hotspots: the brain’s pleasure generators.
00:56 The evolution of pleasure.
01:46 How the brain generates pleasure.
03:07 The subcortical (‘core’) pleasure network.
04:08 The cortical (‘higher’) pleasure network.
05:09 The orbitofrontal cortex’ role and the abstract to concrete pleasure gradient.
08:13 How to be happier by understanding the neuroscience of pleasure.
11:40 Summary.

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World War Terminus Explained | Blade Runner 2049

The event that shaped the world of Blade Runner is an event you’ve probably never heard of: World War Terminus. CJ explores the origin of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’s environmental desolation and asks: did it happen in the movie, too?

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Can Brain Science Explain Why We Like Certain Artworks?

Why do some people love Impressionist paintings like Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” (1906) while others can’t understand the hype? The question of aesthetic taste has stumped scholars for centuries. Now, neuroscientists at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) say they have come closer to decoding how the brain decides which artworks it deems good or attractive.

In a study published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, CalTech Professor John O’Doherty and other researchers propose that the mind creates an opinion of an artwork after dissecting it into discrete elements. Basic features, such as color and texture, and complex qualities, like style, are ranked and weighed individually to make a judgment.

3 Signs The UNIVERSE IS ACTUALLY A GIANT BRAIN

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From the smallest atom to the largest galaxy, everything in the universe obeys the laws of physics, where our brains are made of the same atoms and molecules as the rest of the universe. So could we take this theory further and ask whether consciousness could be part of the underlying fabric of the universe. Humans have also managed to extend this to the internet where there is an eerie pattern between the universe the brain and the internet where experts have been asking the question whether the internet could one day develop its own consciousness. Maybe in the distant future all three will unite into one giant mind. Humans have always been fascinated with the thought that the universe somehow reflects us and whether the universe could be a giant brain. Let’s delve deeper into the trinity that is the universe, the brain and the internet.

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Your Brain, the Internet and the Universe Have Something Fascinating in Common

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Every Single Country as a Supervillain | Created with AI

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0:00 Afghanistan.
0:05 Albania.
0:10 Algeria.
0:15 Andorra.
0:20 Angola.
0:25 Antigua and Barbuda.
0:30 Argentina.
0:35 Armenia.
0:40 Australia.
0:45 Austria.
0:50 Azerbaijan.
0:55 The Bahamas.
1:00 Bahrain.
1:05 Bangladesh.
1:10 Barbados.
1:15 Belarus.
1:20 Belgium.
1:25 Belize.
1:30 Benin.
1:35 Bhutan.
1:40 Bolivia.
1:45 Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1:50 Botswana.
1:55 Brazil.
2:00 Brunei.
2:05 Bulgaria.
2:10 Burkina Faso.
2:15 Burundi.
2:20 Cabo Verde.
2:25 Cambodia.
2:30 Cameroon.
2:35 Canada.
2:40 Central African Republic.
2:45 Chad.
2:50 Chile.
2:55 China.
3:00 Colombia.
3:05 Comoros.
3:10 Costa Rica.
3:15 Côte d’Ivoire.
3:20 Croatia.
3:25 Cuba.
3:30 Cyprus.
3:35 Czech Republic.
3:40 Democratic Republic of the Congo.
3:45 Denmark.
3:50 Djibouti.
3:55 Dominica.
4:00 Dominican Republic.
4:05 East Timor.
4:10 Ecuador.
4:15 Egypt.
4:20 El Salvador.
4:25 Equatorial Guinea.
4:30 Eritrea.
4:35 Estonia.
4:40 Eswatini.
4:45 Ethiopia.
4:50 Fiji.
4:55 Finland.
5:00 France.
5:05 Gabon.
5:10 The Gambia.
5:15 Georgia.
5:20 Germany.
5:25 Ghana.
5:30 Greece.
5:35 Grenada.
5:40 Guatemala.
5:45 Guinea.
5:50 Guinea-Bissau.
5:55 Guyana.
6:00 Haiti.
6:05 Honduras.
6:10 Hungary.
6:15 Iceland.
6:20 India.
6:25 Indonesia.
6:30 Iran.
6:35 Iraq.
6:40 Ireland.
6:45 Israel.
6:50 Italy.
6:55 Jamaica.
7:00 Japan.
7:05 Jordan.
7:10 Kazakhstan.
7:15 Kenya.
7:20 Kiribati.
7:25 Kosovo.
7:30 Kuwait.
7:35 Kyrgyzstan.
7:40 Laos.
7:45 Latvia.
7:50 Lebanon.
7:55 Lesotho.
8:00 Liberia.
8:05 Libya.
8:10 Liechtenstein.
8:15 Lithuania.
8:20 Luxembourg.
8:25 Madagascar.
8:30 Malawi.
8:35 Malaysia.
8:40 Maldives.
8:45 Mali.
8:50 Malta.
8:55 Marshall Islands.
9:00 Mauritania.
9:05 Mauritius.
9:10 Mexico.
9:15 Federated States of Micronesia.
9:20 Moldova.
9:25 Monaco.
9:30 Mongolia.
9:32 Montenegro.
9:37 Morocco.
9:42 Mozambique.
9:47 Myanmar.
9:52 Namibia.
09:57 Nauru.
10:02 Nepal.
10:07 Netherlands.
10:12 New Zealand.
10:17 Nicaragua.
10:23 Niger.
10:28 Nigeria.
10:33 North Korea.
10:38 North Macedonia.
10:43 Norway.
10:48 Oman.
10:53 Pakistan.
10:58 Palau.
11:03 Panama.
11:08 Papua New Guinea.
11:13 Paraguay.
11:18 Peru.
11:23 Philippines.
11:28 Poland.
11:33 Portugal.
11:38 Qatar.
11:43 Romania.
11:48 Russia.
11:53 Rwanda.
11:58 Saint Kitts and Nevis.
12:03 Saint Lucia.
12:08 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
12:13 Samoa.
12:18 San Marino.
12:23 Sao Tome and Principe.
12:28 Saudi Arabia.
12:33 Senegal.
12:38 Serbia.
12:43 Seychelles.
12:48 Sierra Leone.
12:53 Singapore.
12:58 Slovakia.
13:03 Slovenia.
13:08 Solomon Islands.
13:13 Somalia.
13:18 South Africa.
13:23 South Korea.
13:28 South Sudan.
13:33 Spain.
13:38 Sri Lanka.
13:43 Sudan.
13:46 Suriname.
13:51 Sweden.
13:56 Switzerland.
14:01 Syria.
14:06 Taiwan.
14:11 Tajikistan.
14:16 Tanzania.
14:21 Thailand.
14:26 Togo.
14:31 Tonga.
14:36 Trinidad and Tobago.
14:41 Tunisia.
14:46 Turkey.
14:51 Turkmenistan.
14:56 Tuvalu.
15:01 Uganda.
15:06 Ukraine.
15:11 United Arab Emirates.
15:16 United Kingdom.
15:21 United States.
15:26 Uruguay.
15:31 Uzbekistan.
15:36 Vanuatu.
15:41 Vatican City.
15:46 Venezuela.
15:51 Vietnam.
15:56 Yemen.
16:01 Zambia.
16:04 Zimbabwe.

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“We are the future” — automatic content creation experiment

This video was creating using multiple AI tools. Script was generated using ChatGPT, the noration voice was generated with Elevenlabs.io, background audio was generated with AudioLDM model and finally images were created with Stable Diffusion using Illuminati Diffusion v1.1 model. The script itself was a source for prompts at image generation stage.

There were still some human input. Particularly I generated several images for each part of the script and choose the most appealing ones. I did also manually combine noration with background music. But mostly it was done in a way that each part of the process might be completely automated.

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How Meta’s NEW AI Robot Tech JUST Learned To Do THIS + Computer Vision Breakthrough | GenAug

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Rotwang’s Creation: a tribute to Metropolis

My music score for Rotwang’s robot in the silent German expressionist film METROPOLIS by Fritz Lang. 1927.

This film had a major influence on me, but that would come later. When I saw it for the first time I was 9 years old. Little did I know, this scene in particular would haunt me to this day.

I tried to convey the feelings I had as a child, with this composition I call “Phantasmaglorious”; meaning frightening and darkly beautiful. A fitting tribute to Fritz Lang’s masterwork, Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen, the Master of Metropolis and Rudolf Klein-Rogge as C. A. Rotwang the mad scientist who creates the spectre of my childhood nightmeres.

This movie is the definition of sublime.

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