One book suggestion. “On Intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins.
Although there is a plug for his own research model, I would summarise the book as:
brains are a bit tough
but they can’t be that tough
someone is going to figure it out eventually
so let’s try to figure out
here’s everything i learned myself, hope it helps YOU figure this out, if I can’t.
Enjoyable book actually, regardless of what you think of his own preferred AI technique.
I’m going to presume you’ve drank tea, or taken medicine, and under that presumption I can say ‘Yes you did’. It’s just that the drugs you chose were the ones that adults in your culture had decided were safe… things like caffeine say. Had you grown up in a mormon culture or Amish culture, you might not be able to write the same thing you just did, so isn’t what you just wrote an accident of birth rather than a conscious choice about your use of particular chemical structures inside your body?
I would imagine that by choice of locale, you may have passively taken nicotine, too, albeit in small quantities.
, never lost control to hormones….… really? Never got angry then, or too depressed to work? Crikey. Or do you mean you only lost control in the way that your parents and culture approved of; again, nothing more than an accident of birth?