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057: Edward Slingerland on getting drunk & the evolutionary history of alcohol

A LOAD OF BS ON SPORT

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How to Get Rid of a Drunken Person

Early Chinese thinkers developed a variety of strategies for kind of distracting you or tricking you into forgetting about the fact that you're trying to be spontaneous. So if I could take an external substance and use that to turn my PFC down, that's a way around the paradox, right? You're not trying to do it yourself. You're using external substance. It sort of do occur to me that cultures may have figured out that chemical and toxicants were a useful technology to get around the paradox of a way.

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