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I wonder if it is also plausible that these neurons are not showing as active for calculation purposes, but instead active as they are triggering the human emotion to loss aversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion



Loss aversion has a bit of a reproducibility problem, as stated even in your link.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-018-1013-8

https://osf.io/en9qj/


Idiotic concept.


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