This is the best I find right now and I need to go to bed. They retell the same anecdote that I referred to at the end of that piece.
Here is the relevant part:
Heath tells us some of his patients were given “self-stimulators” similar to the ones used by Old’s rats. Whenever he felt the urge, the patient could push any of 3 or 4 buttons on the self-stimulator hooked to his belt. Each button was connected to an electrode implanted in a different part of his brain, and the device kept track of the number of times he stimulated each site.
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We ask Heath if human beings are as compulsive about pleasure as the rats of Old’s laboratory that self-stimulated until they passed out. “No,” he tells us. “People don’t self-stimulate constantly—as long as they’re feeling good. Only when they’re depressed does the stimulation trigger a big response. There are so many factors that play into a human being’s pleasure response: your experience, your memory system, sensory cues...” he muses.
Though in the version I read several years ago the events were in a different order. And they were actually talking about this as a means to reach the happy equilibrium that Kaj is talking about, so they talked much more about the other subjects in the experiment. I had forgotten that Heath interfered with the gay guy after, because that was kind of downplayed.
This is the best I find right now and I need to go to bed. They retell the same anecdote that I referred to at the end of that piece.
Here is the relevant part:
Though in the version I read several years ago the events were in a different order. And they were actually talking about this as a means to reach the happy equilibrium that Kaj is talking about, so they talked much more about the other subjects in the experiment. I had forgotten that Heath interfered with the gay guy after, because that was kind of downplayed.