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134 | Robert Sapolsky on Why We Behave the Way We Do
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Difference Between Cognitive and Emotional Decision Making?
When we buy a house, I'm sure there's some emotional things to come into it and some rational things that come into it. How well do we understand that? Well, depends on what level you're looking at. If you're thinking somebody in a brain scanner, you could see that if they give them a decision to make about something totally like soulless and bloodless and cold or whatever,. You're just activating some not very exciting cortical regions. But the thing that is most like important about that is you can tell the decision someone is going to make by looking at the readout for their limbic emotional brain before you get a readout from the cortex. It's a
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