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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
The Most Depressing Thing on Earth
We have processes in our brain that work on time scales of, what should I say, seconds? Is it as short as milliseconds? How many, tens of milliseconds? Yeah, you look at, here's another set of those incredibly depressing studies. You stick somebody in a brain scanner and you're looking at the amygdala. Kind of the, like, villainous parts of the brain. It's about fear. It'sabout anxiety. It'sAbout aggression. That's interesting. You can't understand the neurobiology of injuring other people outside the context of being terrified out of your wits. But what you see is, you know, the amygdala is part of assessing is this a friendly
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