Dopamine

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Description

The meaning of life is to protect the ego, because it makes the dopamine. Horm is worried that the future is happening too slow. He's afraid he might miss it. So he makes a plan to speed things up using dopamine - the brain chemical that drives motivation. It could work. Disclaimer - This book is weird.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2021
Author: Doctor Zero

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 110
Views: 31,154

Chapters(13 total)

What readers say about Dopamine

“Somehow reading this felt like when you stand up too fast and your brain doesnt get enough oxygen. Generally not sure how im supposed to feel about this story, maybe its a bit too heavy handed and self absorbed, but i did enjoyed it anyway so who knows. I w…”
0f52ba 722f37Royal Road5.0 / 5
“Before we get to the story and talk about what it is, we need to talk about what it isn't. Namely: A novel. This 'story' isn't a neat little narrative that follows three act structure and tries to develop its characters along the way — this 'story' is someo…”
1212BRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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0f52ba 722f37Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Somehow reading this felt like when you stand up too fast and your brain doesnt get enough oxygen.
Generally not sure how im supposed to feel about this story, maybe its a bit too heavy handed and self absorbed, but i did enjoyed it anyway so who knows.
I wanted to leave a nice review but dont really have anything to say, and for some reason it needs to be at least 50 words? S here is some more extra padding.
1212BRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Before we get to the story and talk about what it is, we need to talk about what it isn't. Namely: A novel.
This 'story' isn't a neat little narrative that follows three act structure and tries to develop its characters along the way — this 'story' is someone reading 15 philosophy books, snorting a line of coke, and then alternating between ranting about and bludgeoning you with them.
And if you're into that, it's surprisingly enjoyable.
Just be warned that if you come expecting a proper story, you'll be disappointed.
Style:
For a novel? Abhorrent.
For a philosophy rant? Pretty entertaining and somehow still far more coherent that what most actual philosophers provide.
Grammar:
Couldn't find any typos, or non-intentional-seeming odd sentences. So I guess this gets full marks too(?)
Characters:
What characters? They're first and foremost mouthpieces for philosophy. What's there is pretty entertaining tho, but they quickly become little more than exposition machines.
It could have possible to make them into properly developed characters, but that would have entailed toning down the philosophy, and/or extending the story for dozens of chapters... But like I said, this story cares first and foremost about its philosophy which it wants to roesemt quickly and in a snappy way.
So... guess if we acknowledge the constraints of the length and judge the story by what ir wants to be?
Full marks again, I guess.
Story:
What story? We have a premise that the story runs with for half it's length, then concludes and the last few chapters are just straight up philosophy. Still more narrative than 95% of other philosophy rants, so positively outstanding.
The actual story is the philosophy. The various presuppositions and conclusions the work presents. So let's talk about that in a roundabout and non-spoilery way in an impromptu segment we'll call —
Story Pure and unadulterated philosophy
Honestly, this 'story' is pretty fun. Get moderately drunk — unless you're extra prone to existent
ForristFyreRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I eat philosophy for breakfast lunch and dinner and your books feed me very, very well >:3 I also love the sexually promiscuous, polyamorous protagonists and the vague nearfuture sci-fi and the irreverent genius of everything. Good shit.
Words words words words words words words words words words words words. Boom.
LSRRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I also wrote a book about Dopamine. I think to some degree I wanted to write this book, but instead wrote a book with a ton of violence and insanity because I couldn't produce something thoughtful like this.
It is not even a finished product, but its unfinished ideas are better than most works that finish what they think.
I agree dear author, and thank you.
booklover1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Philosophical debauchery, intelligently written. Lol
Needs more words, so ... this gives me flashbacks to 1980's free love Sci fi fantasy. There's a level of intelligent innocence that humans are lazy, horny perverts with minimal malevolence despite corpo greed.
Good lord too many words for 2:30 in the morning. I'm enjoying the rewrite