240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
The Michael Shermer Show
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What's the Difference Between Ampathy and Squirrel and Rat?
Historically too, you wonder, did people feel the same way? I don't know, 500 years ago, or ou think of these like witch burnings. Where was their ampathy circuit? Ah, is that just a twentieth century,. We we developed our ampathy, and they just didn't have it. And so the emotions were were the same, but theyre applied differently. Because you're what your brain is drawing from and making the decisions are your beliefs, your experiences, your culture. It's different because you grow up in a different culture.
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