Dopamine: A Product of Human Experience

Vedic Worldview by Thom Knoles

Aug 23, 202626:27Religion & Spirituality

What if the real problem with dopamine is not too little or too much, but the modern urge to treat it as the source of human experience rather than its product? In this episode, Thom explores the Western fixation on acti...

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