Towards a Free World
Monday, October 18, 2004
Happy to work hard for no reward? You soon may be.
The Times is reporting that The American National Institute of Mental Health has created a drug which switches off part of the brain which regulates expectation of reward in Rhesus monkeys.
The monkeys, who previously would only indulge in repetitive tasks if they thought a reward was due, would happily bash away at the follow the lights game they had been trained to play for hours without complaint after being dosed with the drug.
And it seems the scientists think it would be easy to do the very same for us, as we have the identical gene, how nice.
The monkeys, who previously would only indulge in repetitive tasks if they thought a reward was due, would happily bash away at the follow the lights game they had been trained to play for hours without complaint after being dosed with the drug.
And it seems the scientists think it would be easy to do the very same for us, as we have the identical gene, how nice.
posted by John H., 9:25 PM
9 Comments:
my god. the end is truly near, isnt it
For some reason I suspect I already got that drug back at my old job.
http://vermutungen.blogspot.com
http://vermutungen.blogspot.com
Do you have a link to that article? I'd love to link directly to it in a follow-up entry on my site. Thanks.
is the drug called weed?
I'd like that drug.
I can take it so I will actually follow through with exercising even if I don't see any results!
I can take it so I will actually follow through with exercising even if I don't see any results!
Reminds me of the whole office space thing, "Doc can you Zonk me out where I do not know I have been at work all day?"
LOL
LOL
Informative news. I'll check back
often for new updates.
Best regards,
Erwin
http://erwinttl.blogspot.com/
often for new updates.
Best regards,
Erwin
http://erwinttl.blogspot.com/
D'oh...
Links back active again folks.
Toni, the link is http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1313556,00.html
Annette, I know just what you mean :)
Erwin, thanks for the kind comment :)
Links back active again folks.
Toni, the link is http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1313556,00.html
Annette, I know just what you mean :)
Erwin, thanks for the kind comment :)
Hm. I work in advertising, so I sort of do that already...
