[ExI] Bodies

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 20:57:05 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 March 2010 00:59, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> claimed:
>>
>>>
>>> There
>>> certainly isn't anything you can take that will increase
>>> your interest
>>> in a particular activity.
>>
>> Ritalin?
>
> Amphetamines cannot selectively increase interest in a particular
> activity. They increase catecholamine activity throughout the brain
> and the rest of the body, and as one of many effects (many
> undesirable) this can increase goal-directed behaviour.

OK, how about hormones that increase sex drive?

-Dave



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