This study also confirms the idea that “intrinsic motivation is important for sustained creative activity.”
Some other findings that may be of interest:
…our findings suggest that individuals who are high in reward sensitivity experience the sudden emergence of a solution into awareness as strongly rewarding whereas individuals who are low in reward sensitivity may still experience insight as sudden and attentionally salient but lacking in hedonic content.
As lifelong autodidact, I wonder if others with this marvelous “addiction” can relate to feeling almost not alive unless there is something to wonder about or figure out. I recently read a biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein. One standout was his strong tendency to seek out simple or humble environments that stimulated his mind.
…Individuals high in reward sensitivity are more likely to take drugs, develop substance-abuse disorders or eating disorders, and engage in risky behaviors such as gambling. The fact that some people find insight experiences to be highly pleasurable reinforces the notion that insight can be an intrinsic reward for problem solving and comprehension that makes use of the same reward circuitry in the brain that processes rewards from addictive drugs, sugary foods, or love.
Getting lost in the woods or on a motorcycle ride, for me, is a highly enjoyable feeling. There have to be slight tremors of fear and agitation followed by finding my way again. I suppose others may experience similar feelings in social settings or as live performers.
…These findings shed light on people’s motivations for engaging in challenging, often time-consuming, activities that potentially yield insights, such as solving puzzles or mysteries, creating inventions, or doing research. It also reinforces the notion that intrinsic motivation is important for sustained creative activity. The expectation of intrinsic rewards from comprehending and creating, rather than from an extrinsic source such as payment, is thought to be the most effective type of workplace motivation…
A society with universal basic income in which no one has to work unless they want to might bring about the greatest flourishing of human talent ever. Then again, maybe not. Inspiration does need a stick on the back sometimes and “joy has no children,” meaning happiness produces few inventions.
Newly declassified bombshell records of an infamous CIA mind control program, MKUltra, reveal how Americans were drugged and tortured more than 60 years ago.
The collection of more than 1,200 pages detail how the CIA used induced sleep, electroshocks and ‘psychic driving’ on drugged subjects who were psychologically tortured for weeks or months to reprogram their minds.
The subjects included criminals, mental patients and drug addicts, but also Army soldiers and average citizens who were given drugs without their knowledge.
A total of 144 projects were conducted from 1953 to 1964, aimed at developing procedures and drugs that could be used during interrogations, weakening individuals and forcing confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.
While it has long been said that subjects only included prisoners, mental patients and drug addicts, one report showed that some CIA and Army officials and ‘subjects in normal life settings’ were ‘unwittingly’ given LSD over the decade-long experiment.
In a newly unsealed document from 1956, researchers were developing ‘an anti-interrogation drug’ by testing ‘materials capable of producing alterations in the human central nervous system which are reflected as alterations in human behavior.’
MKULTRA never stopped. Much of it went private. Articles like this are a deliberate distraction from ongoing crimes against Americans, but I post it anyway to keep the subject in people’s mind and some of the info is good. What we know about MKULTRA today is a very tiny fraction of what they did and continued to do after it was ‘closed down’ and are still doing. Much of it went private. Think poison, psychosurgery, targeted energy weapons, attacks on children and young adults, mass attacks on all children via vaccines and all citizens by many other means, which I leave to your deduction. ABN
I have been wondering about the reinterest in UK rape gang stories from years ago. They were horrific and do deserve more attention but the stories are showing up everywhere, even Musk is on it. ABN
‘I don’t welcome people who want to work solo or be a star,’ Wiles told Axios. ‘My team and I will not tolerate backbiting, second-guessing inappropriately, or drama. These are counterproductive to the mission.’
I’m blowing the whistle. I’m done listening to this.
My name is Michaela Fachar. I am a U.S. Air Force veteran 1N0 All Source analyst. From October 2020-2021, I was deployed to the CENTCOM Air Operations Center at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
I was an E-4 at the time, and my job was to process mission reports (MISREPS) from pilots conducting sorties within CENTCOM theatre. My job was to report on daily significant activity reports (SIGACTS) and publish graphic intel summaries (GRINTSUMS) to all air units in CENTCOM. Task forces reported a TON of UAP activity, but because we had no framework of reporting those requirements, we didn’t. There is evidence of all of this on Kessel Run, the databse that we process these reports on.
From October 2020 to around January 2021, I worked night shift, at a time when very few people worked. As I was reporting on events, news came of blue on blue fratricide [blue on blue means friendly fire]. While I was compiling the reporting, a CIA officer came out of his room and tapped me on the shoulder. He told me not to report on it. We had other blue on blue events, and we received orders to not report on those events due to the potential for “diplomatic scandals.”
I live on Fort Bragg, NC, and I am still in the individual ready reserve (IRR). I have reached out to Jeremy, Sarah Adams, Shawn Ryan, and Shoe separately, but have no received word from you.
I want to testify to Rep. Tim Burchett because I am concerned about the Biden administration and our national security apparatus. They lack a fundamental understanding of the national security picture with China, and they are ramping us up for war. I believe that what I witnessed can corroborate the concerns that Matt Livelsberg addressed in his email manifesto.
Fachar provides yet another warning on Chinese drone or plasmid UAPs and the danger they pose to USA. Her info is worth considering. I wonder how Shawn Ryan will deal with it. I doubt China is strong enough to take on USA or daring enough to try even if they were. That said, I do not dismiss Fachar’s warning or Livelsberger’s . And that said, who cannot see a scenario where scores of terrorist attacks occur in USA and the West. These will galvanize Western populations making them clamor for war. Add Trump (rightly) deporting millions of illegals, which in itself will accustom the public to thinking in large numbers… and we are all set for WW3, a massive battle in the Middle East which will result in USA destroying all of Israel’s enemies and establishing Greater Israel, while inside USA and the West, the public accedes to a super spy state with all the high tech in place forever because we (maybe) really will need it to ID terrorists. Is Fachar, Ryan, and many others preprogramming us for WW3? Forty million Zionist Christians will be ecstatic when it begins. When the muddle of indeterminable information meets kinetic war, action is all that matters. ABN
All known life is homochiral. DNA and RNA are made from “righthanded” nucleotides, and proteins are made from “left-handed” amino acids. Driven by curiosity and plausible applications, some researchers had begun work toward creating lifeforms composed entirely of mirror-image biological molecules. Such mirror organisms would constitute a radical departure from known life, and their creation warrants careful consideration. The capability to create mirror life is likely at least a decade away and would require large investments and major technical advances; we thus have an opportunity to consider and preempt risks before they are realized. Here, we draw on an indepth analysis of current technical barriers, how they might be eroded by technological progress, and what we deem to be unprecedented and largely overlooked risks (1). We call for broader discussion among the global research community, policy-makers, research funders, industry, civil society, and the public to chart an appropriate path forward.
American Buddhist Net 