Reason’s goals can override emotional default via neural rewiring

Evidence

The fascinatingly destratifying potential in neuroeconomics, then, lies in the possibility of using it against its ostensible purposes. As yet another of Kapital’s slave-programs, the purpose of neuroeconomics is to induce the kinds of idiot-repetition-compulsion Burroughs and Downham delineate. According to Rita Carter in Mapping the Mind, “where thought conflicts with emotion, the latter is designed by the neural circuitry in our brains to win”. The Spinozist body without organisation program is aimed at reversing this priority, providing abstract maps for imposing the goals of reason upon emotional default. So k-punk is also neuropunk: an intensive rewiring of humanity’s neural circuits. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2333

Categorization

• XREF: Ties the emotion-over-reason wiring claim (Carter) to Burroughs’s and Downham’s addiction/control analyses, echoing Fisher’s own drug and capitalist-realist themes in earlier chapters. — connects to: Sustained motivation plus automatic control mechanisms can fully break the prejudice habit — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2112
• QUESTION: Would a ‘body without organs’ still count as imposing reason’s goals, or does that collapse back into an organismic program — the very hierarchy Fisher rejects?

Broader Connections

• Sustained motivation plus automatic control mechanisms can fully break the prejudice habit #corroborates (0.75) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2112