@sangmadewira4726

3 months ago

So basically,

- hippocampus
Its both the math/mismatch detector between the plan/ideal and the world/sensory data and also the alarm bell that rings if a mismatch occurs and raises the flood gates to disinhibit the amygdala and hypothalamus or the prey/fear response and the exploratory and curiosity/positive reward circuit.

There are 5 categories of perception according to the hippocampus:
1. Unconditioned threat (pain: when encountered, removes or truncates a motivational circuit)
2. Unconditioned promise (consummatory reward: kills a motivation circuit by satisfying it; it's "finished")
3. Conditioned threat (fear: pushes you backwards away from the end of a road you "know" [whether from memory or instinct] will cause you pain)
4. Conditioned promise (incentive reward: pushes you towards a goal and simultaneously validates the constructed path towards it to be true [enough])
5. Anomaly/novelty (the unknown/ uncategorizable)

Anomaly/novelty
The category of all things that you don't know which category it belongs to. It's ambivalent in its significance; the hippocampus will disinhibit the amygdala and prime the hypothalamus; if you encounter it, you'll freeze or run away then either start getting curious and explore around a bit or cry from the trauma. Something you don't understand happens, and there aren't any immediate consequences: how should you respond; where in your hierarchy of knowledge lies the error? You don't know, at least on first glance. So it varies in the population – some ignore it and some freak out, and sometimes one of them has the right response; matches the appropriate demand of nature (which throws out random problems of random degree at random intervals). That's why the distribution of neuroticism exists.

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