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21 December 2016

Just Read
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Sedikides, Constantine, and Steven Spencer. 2007. The self. Frontiers of social psychology. Hove: Psychology
Motivational Quotes
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As detailed above, interoception is strongly related to reward, urge, and craving, and alliesthesia emphasizes that through interoceptive processing these constructs are dependent on the pre-existing internal state of the individual, which may undergo positive/negative alliesthetic changes. Thus, three components appear critical for how an individual responds to drugs: (1) the internal or homeostatic state as signaled via afferents converging to the insular cortex; (2) the cognitive state of the individual, which includes a “contextualized” representation of the interoceptive state (Shipp, 2005); and (3) the learned associations of the external stimulus (e.g. the drug of choice) with previous outcomes including predicted internal states. These components clearly differ across individuals who are initially exposed to drugs and those who have been taking drugs for years.

Thinking Aloud
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Thus, we modify somehow the question of control that is a key question for the study of the alcohol addiction. Let’s put it this way: Does narrative cogito fully control the addictive process of the impact on the reward center or not? Remember the answer here can be as hypothetical as any other alternative. To explore the direction further we shall point out the key elements of the above-mentioned human body control center complex. Scientifically speaking we twisted the logic of the previous fragment by introducing the idea of the narrative cogito without discussing the basic notion which subcategory this idea is. We can find an excuse that we did it following the historical tradition. Indeed, it was narrative cogito that Descartes and his followers put into the center of their attention.