In accordance to computational dramaturgy framework all stories that take place in your life are a collection of narratives that create your personality every moment of now. This computational dramaturgy philosophy is based on a thought experiment “What if stories about things are more primal than the material world around them and matter and energy only structures in time and space around conscious dramaturgical concepts that always contain a goal for every action and a desire, a reason of a character to get it.
Like goals you reach every moment of now: Breathing, eating, walking home, seeing videos on YouTube, not dying. Al this dramaturgical entities can be seen and described by a side observer. Observed and categorised to create a unique set, unique pattern of narratives that create you every moment of now.
It's an interesting read you can google computational dramaturgy to read more thought experiments.
But here I fell into another great speculation: Dopamine as a molecule in our body that is a great chemical executor of dramaturgy. I mean this molecule is in charge of everything we want and the way we get to it. Even wanting babies to reproduce and ability to feed one depends on dopamine.
Chemically Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter molecule that neurons use to communicate. Dopamine isn’t just about “pleasure” it has multiple roles depending on the brain pathway:
1.Reward & Motivation (Mesolimbic Pathway)
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Movement Control (Nigrostriatal Pathway)
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Cognition & Decision-Making (Mesocortical Pathway)
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Hormonal Regulation (Tuberoinfundibular Pathway)
Dopamine surges when we anticipate something rewarding (food, love, money, success). It’s more about wanting and pursuing than about simple pleasure. That is what made me think about dopamine as a perfect dramaturgy transmission molecule.
Dopamine controls your body in space, in the basal ganglia it is crucial for coordinating movement. Dopamine regulates focus, planning, and working memory. Imbalances are linked to ADHD, schizophrenia, and addiction. Dopamine also inhibits prolactin release affecting reproduction and lactation.
Interesting outcomes appear if you think about another speculation computational dramaturgy brings up. It researches ideas of hyperdimensional influence into our 3D reality through a higher dimension that manifests in our world as a dramaturgical needs and urges observed by consciousness.
To imagine it fast think of any dramaturgical event: sitting near the table. A person sits near the table now, maybe you set near the table or did it in past. And some people will sit near the table in future. All that events will happen in different time sequences and in different locations. But the type of event itself, “sitting near the table” is a separate entity, a dramaturgical capsule of a character that is sitting near the table with some purpose and can be observed and detected as such event. This is timeless and spaceless entity!
Only a reflection of its true nature that comes from higher dimension.
In this case dopamine represent an actual physical capsule, molecule that operates “complex” life of humans. Everything who we are might be transmitted through dopamine into our bodies from higher dimension and is a part of a higher dimensional purpose. That might explain why life appears so strange sometimes, illogical, cinematographic and full of ups and downs. It is a reason we exist.
Higher dimensional source of dramaturgy is concerned only about one thing in our world: expending the number of possible dramaturgical events that differ one from another and even bring aesthetic pleasure of experiencing beauty.
So if there where higher dimensional Netflix bosses who run our lives to make a lot of stories to see, they would do it through exact chemical tools, molecules such as dopamine. So relax, on the bottom level of it all you might still be not responsible for anything in your life. But that is not for sure.
Source (computational dramaturgy basics):
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=4530090
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