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biggest thing i've come to believe to reviving and resuscitate and that is a social project. >> is boring to understand the behavior of your brain tells her spine tells your muscles to do something and how you behave but what is incredibly complicated is understanding the meaning of the behavior but that is the appalling act the heroic self sacrifice and the deep
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betrayal to understand the biology of the context of our behavior and that one is really challenging. one thing that is clear your never to understand what is going space if you cannot insure with the childhood experience so any behavior that occurs as ceo, of the biology that occurred one second or one hour before up about 1 million hours before. there is a crisis was some violence people running around and a stranger running at you in an agitated state you cannot be
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sure the facial expression may be dairying free, free in, threatening something that seems like a handgun used in there you have a gun near running at you and you shoot. but instead what they have is a cell phone so asking that biological question whether the behavior occur? that is old hierarchy of questions to go on one second before when i begin to understand that the top of the list of suspects is the amygdala if you think of aggression think of the amygdala and if you stimulated in the experimental lab humans who have rare types of
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seizures, the tumors if you damage the amygdala is about violence. but if you sit down and ask the scientist what it is about the first word for most people it is about a year -- a fear and anxiety and learning to be afraid so now you learned that you cannot understand the first thing in your biology of violence without understanding the neurobiology of the year and in the world where dorati is afraid -- marilyn is afraid but what parts of the brain doesn't talk to? also what
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is interesting is the insular cortex that is incredibly boring if you are a lab rat it is very straightforward if you bite into a piece of food if it is spoiled negative rotten as a result your ince of the cortex activates to robberies -- reflects you have a gag reflex very useful to keep mammals from eating poisonous foods that those who do is convince to bite into this food they have a brain scanner it activates cell receptor think about eating something disgusting and and it activates but now sit down one -- since someone down
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have them to you about the time they did something miserable and rotten or another occurrence. but the insular cortex will activate with every other minimal and also does moral discussed. if it is morally appalling we feel sick today were stomach we feel sorry old because the breed invented the symbolic thing of those standards of 50,000 years ago and did not have the new part of the brain so there is a big committee meetings to stay in solar does food it is in the portfolio to
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help into the difference to nor - - no surprise because then there is the amygdala if it decides it is disgusting to be scary your menacing but if you see a moral will that could take the vermis self sacrifice. and with this abstraction to the visceral with the stomach churning to make that a moral imperative.
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because that insular cortex is not that good a remembering it is only a metaphor that we feel disgusted. suddenly whole world the problem of somebody who was disgusted by their behavior that is the normal living lifestyle. it is a moving target in time in girl that is a pretty good litmus test. and most of all every ideologue in history of how the insular cortex to works better if you get to talk about them in those who prey differently? because that
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