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#140 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain

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The Relationship Between a Volleyball and an Inanimate Object

Could you have a relationship literally with an inanimate object and have it sustain you? Your life would probably be shorter because you wouldn't actually derive the body budgeting benefits from... Right, so we've talked about how your brain... Its most important job is to control your body. And there are places to learn about that, right? So for example, think about children and their blankets, right? There's something tactile and there's something more factory and it's very comforting. I mean, even for non-human little animals, right? I don't know about cats, but... Cats are cold hard. Some cats identify as dogs, yes. Yeah, they're species fluid.

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