[HN Gopher] Helen Fisher, who researched the brain's love circui...
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       Helen Fisher, who researched the brain's love circuitry, has died
        
       Author : dadt
       Score  : 79 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 03:41 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | dadt wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/SsScR
        
       | orionblastar wrote:
       | RIP
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fisher_(anthropologist)
        
       | airocker wrote:
       | RIP. She should be credited when someone at OpenAI introduces the
       | concept of hormones to neural networks.
        
         | sdwr wrote:
         | That's the dream!
         | 
         | There's the "cold" self-referential I, and the "warm" embodied
         | self that persists. Hormones go a long way towards building
         | that second self.
        
         | kridsdale3 wrote:
         | I'll take one GPT _on steroids_ , please
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/science/helen-fisher-dead...
        
       | dartharva wrote:
       | This is her explaining her research on NPR:
       | 
       | https://text.npr.org/2014/04/25/301824760/what-happens-to-ou...
        
       | agumonkey wrote:
       | If anybody knows about Ventral tegmental area dysorders, feel
       | free to mail me.
        
       | josefrichter wrote:
       | Her TED talk is legendary. Thank you.
        
         | toomuchtodo wrote:
         | https://www.ted.com/speakers/helen_fisher
        
           | ABraidotti wrote:
           | Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise:
           | 
           | > Even after all her years of research, she's still excited
           | by love. "You're trying to win life's greatest prize -- which
           | is a life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the
           | future..."
           | 
           | How novel! I met my now-partner a long time ago and we
           | quickly agreed neither of us wants kids. 16 years later,
           | we're pretty happy with each other. I guess you could call
           | this a powerful extinctive adaptation.
           | 
           | (1) https://ideas.ted.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-lucky-in-
           | love/
        
             | ilrwbwrkhv wrote:
             | The fact that humans took control over the most fundamental
             | evolutionary adaptation and are capable of satisfying our
             | urge to have sex without it resulting in children will
             | cause the end of our species maybe.
        
               | BurningFrog wrote:
               | More likely, it will wipe out the subpopulation that
               | don't value children enough to overcome that.
        
       | swayvil wrote:
       | Did her studies make her into a better lover?
        
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