I think it was a bit of a sleight of hand to make it about time. Because time is quantifiable. You can give 5 minutes of your time but I figure most people can attest that has little to do with how much actual attention you’re giving. And it’s attention that we crave. That’s what social media is built upon. When you really love and enjoy something or someone, you’re thinking of it, even if you’re not actively engaged with it. And on the other hand, if you give something attention for long enough, you do start to develop some kind of an attachment on it ( which easily becomes unhealthy too, like doom scrolling ).

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    Those neurotransmitters just release electrical impulses so if you want to break it down everything about humans reduces down to electricity traveling through out meat

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      Neurotransmitters are chemicals used for communication, but i uderstand what you mean.

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      Yes, but the key detail is governance. There’s specific molecules that, without them, there is no attention to be sought. Paying attention or “having willpower” is causally linked to these specific compounds being present in the meat.

      Much of “free will” boils down to regulation of these neurotransmitters.

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        If your goal is to boil it down to the fundamental levels it’s the ion that’s that cause action potentials that are actually causing thought

        If you want to look at it holistically it’s due to the connections of the dendrites and how those interact with each other

        We have no control of our neurotransmitters and they are only released in response to stimuli from another cell