The heart of the matter..

For centuries, that was the fundamental view of our interior life: a perpetual struggle between the brain--the capital of rationality--and the heart, the sloppy seat of passion. my mind says yes, but my heart says no"-Indeed, the fact that we can’t trust our brains to be sober assessors, that they are as lacking in objective vigilance as the untrustworthy heart, that they were wired by an ancient (and often amoral) electrician and as such are no longer entirely useful in a modern age, has become reasonably well known to the general public.. "Sex addiction is very real, and it takes a terrible toll." The neuro-extension of this to human beings is clear, how the pleasure center is the Kremlin of Desire, controlling our often self-immolating response to drugs and alcohol; sex; hunger; altruism; exercise--as well as the basis of virtually all forms of addictive behavior.