Why Too Much Interaction Between Different Parts of the Brain Leads To Unhappiness

Authors

Ricardo Alvarez, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Yamel Hernandez, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

5-1-2021

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-21-50

Abstract

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.