Soo… I have intense research to share on this. But I’m not sure if this is the right moment yet - the changes have been implemented in the Luxury and Pleasure Model.
I’ll share the research from the original PDF of the topic, it may not be summarized as the information is very interconnected. I have the same context occurring with The Superior Mind NFT as truly such complex terms are best read through the many articles / presented in scientific literature.
With that said…
[[ 3. The Self & Personal Agency:
the self arises from different brain regions and the interaction between these part; the integration is asserted with the necessitated neural connectivity. Each of these areas is responsible for a processing function of the self and body; some are relevant for both the self, and the body. It remains that proper processing within these areas and the correct relaying of information, as well as the increased neural connectivity is a prerequisite to formation. These areas do not only guide the body ownership, but also represent self-agency within the individual. A broader definition of SRP (Self Related Processing) includes the coordination of various basic emotional processes and bodily interoceptive stimuli (e.g., emotional, motivational, homeostatic, bodily need states) with exteroceptive stimuli (e.g., sensory stimuli) in relation to the organism’s goal-directed activities. The areas are also relevant to reward processing which indicates a similarity and a connection between the two of them. SCMS (Subortical-cortical midline structures ) and their networks (e.g., right posterior insula, right inferior parietal cortex, ventromedial PFC) represent neural correlates of the “core self,” defined as the continuous interaction between intero- and exteroceptive stimuli allowing the self to feel as a unit — A crucial concept of design and of application; the core self is then to be considered as the subjective experience that oneself is the agent of perception, action, cognition, and emotion.
Subortical-cortical midline structures (SCMS) are brain areas that enable self-related processing; this is where the core self is structured; the cerebral regions are responsible for the constituents that form such personal agency; that is the self-agency to right posterior insula, right inferior parietal cortex and motor-related areas, self-ownership to right parietal, ventromedial prefrontal, and insular cortices.
the degree at which the insular cortex is active is directly relevant to the degree of personal agency; the insular cortex provides a conscious representation of bodily-self related information; This body-ownership dynamic involves a complex neural network comprising the right temporo-parietal junction (which tests the incorporeability of the external object), the secondary somatosensory cortex (which maintains an on-line representation of the body), the posterior parietal and ventral premotor cortices (which code for the recalibration of the hand-centered coordinate systems), and the right posterior insula (which underpins the subjective experience of body-ownership; Several approaches have attempted to explain the sense of agency and the sense of body-ownership: these two senses jointly constitute the sense of self and seem to derive from an interaction between current multisensory input and internal models of the body
Multi-sensory input and experiences can unite emotions under their assigned qualities; Among the findings that uphold pleasure, It can be noted that Self-Agency can, despite the neural circuits, be shakeable in the presence of counterfeit emotions. This leads to a new discovery that asserts the potency of positive emotions within a pattern; (remember, the patterns emerge unconditioned). Persistence of positive emotions is a valuable pillar that further assists the states of persistence and intrinsic motives; the emotions within are
strengthened and the mental states and bodily capacities are strengthened to withhold positive emotions for a longer and more resilient timeframe; making the states of positive emotions and their capacity unbreakable.
It leads the findings to assert a status of increment upon the psychic apparatus of energies required to initiate such momentum of activities, be it within the brain or the bodily parts. It’s of a generative quality such discharge released within the brain and the neurological connections. Intense somatic activations are derived I the regions of neural groupings specialized in the detection of homeostatic physiological parameters and the autonomic neuroendocrine systems within the brain. It is of note that the initiation of the patterns and the rewiring systems indicate a placement that is filled with its retrospective patterns. It is within the various systems that change is generated; starting at the BBRUB system and the brainstem’s medial and ventral reticular formations; change is onto the ascending projects of the system to enhance the sensorimotor response as well as the descending ones that enhance the autonomic response of the organism. The merge of individual consciousness within the system is hypothesized to be relevant to the brainstem relevancies, but is not only limited to these changes. The system as a unified construct is brought to advanced levels of neural connections and operational procedures. The seeking/desire system provides the opportunity to create new patterns with additional neural wiring at their end-goals neural circuits at the level of subcortical regions and neocortical areas. These patterns can then be distributed upon the brain in terms of pure pleasure, motivation, and intrinsic drive. Personal agency increases to full ownership, of the core self, of the self, and of the body and its functions; the process is mediated through the increase of activity of the insular cortex and the systems such as PFC and and Subortical-cortical midline structures and their networks, described in full detail and linked to the Luxury and Pleasure NFT.
It is the association of qualities that asserts a critical measure for sensivity and therefore, pleasure. the quality of openness is identified as a critical measure for sensitivity to Novelty; generative of pleasure by natural order. It is the sensitized appraisal for the experiences of Novelty that assists in inviting Pleasure into one’s life. The idea that the enjoyment itself has a prerequisite is connected to further models within the project; first the assimilation of the self itself and the presence of beauty observances within the measures of the perception; second the notion of selective regions that construct the self at its points; and third the quality of openness that serves as the last step towards the physical enjoyment of pleasure. It could be considered as an analytical and neurological approach to obtaining both factors of beauty; that is, beauty itself, and the beholder in its make up and identity, the third factor herein is the experience itself; the emotion connected herewith is enjoyment.
For the amount of pleasures that can be experienced within one’s mind; pleasure is then considered an aspect that can be connected to any experience; and this is a core goal in itself, to bring in the emotions of pleasure to any of the person’s actions and environments; pleasure can be as complex as a ‘release of confusion’ in an AHA! Moment and its insights, or as simple as appraisal that is also connected with interest as well as pleasure. Pleasure is therefore placed within a network of emotions that activate each other and work towards the neural circuits of pleasure; one could say that an emotional circuit exists as a generative force of pleasure.
These findings can be confirmed through fields such as neuroaesthetics; the breadth and complexity of aesthetic emotions; that is— A group of emotions frequently felt in response to art, yet distinct from pleasure, are the knowledge emotions. The knowledge emotions—interest, awe, beauty, confusion, and surprise—are associated with beliefs about thoughts and knowledge; they stem from epistemic goals, and arise from metacognitive processes. These emotions, however appearing in simplicity, are placed into a mechanism of complexity relevant to their precise sensation within an experience. This results in a crafted design that considers their complexity seriously and designs them in ways that take note of their un-alluring sides; as well as their strength points.
The emotion of interest has been distinguished from pleasure on the basis of cognitive appraisal processes— interest is positively associated with complex stimuli, but pleasure is negatively related to complexity; pleasure, specifically, is increased upon the heightened conceptual understanding and the aroused sensation of such. Two other states that are distinct from pleasure and involve epistemic goals are awe and beauty. The emotion of awe is felt as one tries to accommodate vast novelty, the success of which leads to a powerful emotional state. The accommodation of awe is designed in an increased end-route as well as capacity; these two form the successful experience of awe and deters away the other associated one that is of fear; Awe can be and is frequently experienced as a negative and fear-like state when accommodation is unsuccessful. Beauty is defined as “the exhilarating feeling that something complex, perhaps to the point of being profound, might yield an understanding. Beauty is distinguished from the pleasant on the basis of effort, but not on the basis of connectivity; relevant data highlights the necessity of presence of the two emotions for either to be successfully experienced; pleasure is associated with fluent processing, but beauty relies on effortful processing that drives arousal and results in an exhilarating experience. Therefore, several aesthetic states are distinguished from simple pleasure. All are elicited by complex and novel situations where understanding is required but is effortful. Pleasure, on the other hand, is facilitated by ease of understanding.
Openness/Intellect has been implicated in both of the aforementioned ways. Curiosity—a trait associated with Openness/Intellect—is associated with greater appraised understanding, which fully mediates the curiosity- interest relationship. That is, curious people feel greater interest because they are better able to understand epistemic situations, which in turn predicts greater interest. This finding is consistent with the theoretical framework proposed by for Intellect traits. Within this framework, Intellect traits are associated with processes of seeking and conquering intellectually stimulating events, which map onto interest and understanding.
As a form of pleasure and as an individualised metric; the NFT proceeds to transform the aristocrat, ultra- premium individual, into an artistic creative personality with the added intellect and openness directly relevant to it.]]