valence hacking

Category: Review

  • Valence doesn’t need the self, even in “minimal” forms

    Valence doesn’t need the self, even in “minimal” forms

    There is something quite unsettling and arbitrary about how exactly your “self” emerged. Among the countless potential locations that had existed in the universe prior to your birth, your “self” once appears, and henceforth occupies a seemingly random chunk of it, converges to a precise spatiotemporal position, and there it…

  • Valence is something that the striatum is doing to the cortex

    Valence is something that the striatum is doing to the cortex

    Here’s a view that might be controversial in some corners of neuroscience, but it’s one I firmly believe: there is no brain region more central to the stream of your consciousness and your valence than the striatum. Consciousness is not generated by the striatum, but everything that matters about your…