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Joseph LeDoux

The Science of Psychotherapy

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Is There an Inherent Set of Preferences?

Is there an innate set of preferences? Like, you know, do we desire to be well? Is that a reasonable sort of assumption? Well, desire is kind of a loaded term, right? It puts a lot of subjectivity into it. And with this rightness stuff, it's just there. There's no, it's not like so explicit as to the desire. But genetically, let's talk about that because yeah, yeah. We have different genes that have wired our amygdala's bell curves differently. So in terms of the shear flat automatic, Pavlovian conditioned response, which is going to be a summation of genetic and non-tonetic learned epigenetic,.

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