February 2, 2006
Lust and Greed
Arnold KlingIn this post, Mark Thoma passes along some research findings from brain scans.
The pleasure of orgasm, the high from cocaine, the rush of buying Google Inc. at $450 a share --- the same neural network governs all three
I once heard a tape where the speaker said that in the Buddhist tradition there is a single harmful emotion that is lust and greed--the claim being that you cannot have one without the other. I guess that modern science confirms this ancient wisdom.
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