“Most animals (human animals included) never see the walls of their enclosure. They live and die within the program, chasing the next hit of sugar or status without a second thought. But your prefrontal cortex—that evolutionary latecomer, grants you the terrible and glorious power of meta-cognition. You can watch your own dopamine spike and call it by its name. You can feel the pull of tribal belonging and recognize it as a survival algorithm. You can see the “evil loop” for what it is.”