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133. Maps of Meaning 5: Story and Metastory 1

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Measure Skin Resistance

Skin resistance changes with the amount that you sweat. That can change very, very rapidly. And it changes in response to physiological demands placed on your body. For example, if your body assumes that you're going to leap into action for some purpose, then it's going to open up your pores to prepare you to keep yourself cool. We have conserved fast acting reflexes at various levels of our nervous system. They aren't capable of sophisticated response, is its pretty much stimulus response. But they have as an advantage, incredible speed because there just aren't that many narrow connections between the stimulus and the response....

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