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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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Is Your Prefernal Cortex in Top Shape?

When we're deciding whether not to trust some one, we look at their emotional expressions. This is the safety net we have in co operation. We use emotional displays as a way to know whether or not to trust people. Ti this opens up the possible risk, though, that people could be faking it. The soft spot here, again, is e prefer on cortex. In order to lie, in order to cheat, you need your prefernal cortex in top shapea,. lying is very difficult cotively, right? You have to keeptrat in your mind both what's true and what's what you're telling the person. Is you need your p pc top shape.

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