Laugh Gesture Relationship with Neuroscience When We Learn

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I posted some something related to this that focused on the negative reinforcement aspect.
The Amygdala also reinforces positive learning.
One of the basic drives is the exploration of our environment and we clever humans have extended this to “teaching.” Positive social reinforcement is definitely something the amygdala picks up on resulting in enhanced learning. One other factor in learning is relevance - as you explore your environment (be exposed to education) your learning rate is greatly enhanced if you can see personal relevance or utility in the material. When I was teaching this point was driven home to me time and time again and that became a touchstone in reaching and teaching students struggling with the material.

Could Nociceptor be relevant/critical to developing intelligence?

My take is that the old brain structures are configured to work somewhat like a Hopfield or Boltzmann network with each of the nodes being one of the basic behavior states like feeding, fleeing, fighting, mating, seeking shelter, sleeping, drinking, exploring, grooming, nesting, whatever else you can think of. The various body sensors are inputs to this tipping the current state to whatever has the strongest input. The sensory system has memory associated with it that registers the elements of…