Postpartum, I'd Never Recognized How Strong Just the Genetics and the Wiring Played

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"I'd never acknowledged or realized how strong just the genetics and the wiring played. That's obvious terrible combination," she says of her abusive childhood. "If you're if you're someone who tends to be anxious and sensitive and empathic and then you're you're born into an abusive situation."

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:20) – Free will
(1:00:37) – Consciousness
(1:31:09) – Depression
(1:44:26) – Psychedelics
(1:52:25) – Meditation
(1:56:49) – Ideas
(2:20:35) – AI sentience
(2:37:56) – Suffering
(2:40:53) – Meaning of life