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Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will
Huberman Lab
The Prefrontal Cortex Is Like Switches
The areas of the brain, like the hypothalmus and the amidula, they're sort of like switches. I mean, if you stimulate ventromedial hypothalmus, you get the right neurons. An animal, we'll try to kill, even an object that's sitting next to it. You tickle some other nerons, it'll try and mate with that same object. It's not all this social context, an moral relativity and situationa ethic stuff. That's the prefent cortex, that's got a master that. And that winds up meaning, more than anywhere where you say your perception of things can powerfully influence the reality of what's coming into youen.
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