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Lev Gumilev's passionarity theory can be easily explained by the law of diminishing returns.

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Contiguity vs. contingency (!)

predict and control what is going to be next; reliable predictions;

reinforcement improves performance;

change in knowledge; surprise;

redundancy experiment(!), new stimuli that doesn't change the outcome.

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addiction as crash avoidance. the role of a dayly schedule or a problem list.