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Ep21 "How far would you follow authority?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Effect of Shock on Learning

The experimenter tells you each time the learner gets a wrong answer, to increase the level of shock. The question is how high do you keep going? Because at some point, when you reach a pretty high level, the learner stops responding and doesn't hear any cries anymore. Is he unconscious? Is he dead? There's nothing but silence now.

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