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Awestruck

Unexplainable

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The Neuroscience of Awe

The regions of the brain involved in self-representation get quiet during awe. There's a little bit of early work showing that more positive forms of awe activates reward circuitry in the brain. "There are a lot of mysteries that await and a lot of barriers to this work, you know, all requires vast things"

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