177 - This is Your Brain on Love
Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships
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Those Primitives and Ambassadors
A primitive is the part of your brain that kind of deals wi survival. Primitives function to trump all your other needs and wants. They're really fantastic identifying dangers and threats and then quickly deciding how to deal with those dangers and threats. I'm so again, like if you are in a argument with your significant other, then this could mean, like identifies facial expressions or vocal inflection or harmful words. And then it can cause you, as the receiver of those things, to potentially act in certain ways,. Or act quickly in a reactive way, not necessarily one that's assessing the entire situation.
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