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Reasonably recent experiments show that unhappiness is strongly correlated with the excessive interaction between two parts of the brain—amygdala and hippocampus. At first glance, in situations when outside signals are positive, additional interaction between two parts of the brain that get signals from different sensors should only reinforce the positive feeling. In this paper, we provide a simple explanation of why, instead of the expected reinforcement, we observe unhappiness.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grants 1623190 (A Model of Change for Preparing a New Generation for Professional Practice in Computer Science), and HRD-1834620 and HRD-2034030 (CAHSI Includes).
It was also supported by the program of the development of the Scientific-Educational Mathematical Center of Volga Federal District No. 075-02-2020-1478.
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Alvarez, R., Hernandez, Y., Kreinovich, V. (2023). Why Too Much Interaction Between Different Parts of the Brain Leads To Unhappiness. In: Ceberio, M., Kreinovich, V. (eds) Decision Making Under Uncertainty and Constraints. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16415-6_32
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