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[[File:Motivational-salience-rewards-reinforcement-conditioning-addiction.jpg|thumb|High motivational salience]] | [[File:Motivational-salience-rewards-reinforcement-conditioning-addiction.jpg|thumb|High motivational salience]] | ||
How much you like something determines how much your [[neural network]] is reinforced by a specific reward. | How much you [[like]] something determines how much your [[neural network]] is reinforced by a specific reward. The higher the salience, the more impact it has on your synaptic growth and the resulting [[probability]] that you will do whatever you did to get that reward again. | ||
If you like something too much and don't practice [[moderation]] you get [[addiction]]. | If you like something too much and don't practice [[moderation]], you get [[addiction]].<blockquote>''"The [[poetic]] image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche."'' -[[wikipedia:Gaston_Bachelard|Gaston Bachelard]]</blockquote>Relative salience and frequency of [[reinforcement]] can allow you to fully predict how often a subject will choose one option versus another, undermining any argument for [[free will]]. This is known as [[wikipedia:Operant_conditioning|operant conditioning]]. | ||
Relative salience and frequency of reinforcement can allow you to fully predict how often a subject will choose one option versus another | |||
See [[wikipedia:Motivational_salience|Motivational Salience]] on Wikipedia. | See [[wikipedia:Motivational_salience|Motivational Salience]] on Wikipedia. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:04, 20 January 2025
How much you like something determines how much your neural network is reinforced by a specific reward. The higher the salience, the more impact it has on your synaptic growth and the resulting probability that you will do whatever you did to get that reward again.
If you like something too much and don't practice moderation, you get addiction.
"The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche." -Gaston Bachelard
Relative salience and frequency of reinforcement can allow you to fully predict how often a subject will choose one option versus another, undermining any argument for free will. This is known as operant conditioning.
See Motivational Salience on Wikipedia.