How does shard theory explain romantic jealousy? It seems like most people feel jealous when their romantic partner does things like dancing with someone else or laughing at their jokes. How do shards like this form from simple reward circuitry? I’m having trouble coming up with a good story of how this happens. I would appreciate if someone could sketch one out for me.
Speculatively, jealousy responses/worries could be downstream of imitation/culture (which “raises the hypothesis”/has self-supervised learning ingrain the completion, such that now the cached completion is a consequence which can be easily hit by credit assignment / upweighted into a real shard). Another source would be negative reward events on outcomes where you end up alone / their attentions stray. Which, itself, isn’t from simple reward circuitry, but a generalization of other learned reward events which I expect are themselves downstream of simple reward circuitry. (Not that that reduces my confusion much)
How does shard theory explain romantic jealousy? It seems like most people feel jealous when their romantic partner does things like dancing with someone else or laughing at their jokes. How do shards like this form from simple reward circuitry? I’m having trouble coming up with a good story of how this happens. I would appreciate if someone could sketch one out for me.
I don’t know.
Speculatively, jealousy responses/worries could be downstream of imitation/culture (which “raises the hypothesis”/has self-supervised learning ingrain the completion, such that now the cached completion is a consequence which can be easily hit by credit assignment / upweighted into a real shard). Another source would be negative reward events on outcomes where you end up alone / their attentions stray. Which, itself, isn’t from simple reward circuitry, but a generalization of other learned reward events which I expect are themselves downstream of simple reward circuitry. (Not that that reduces my confusion much)