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The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.
Robert M. Sapolsky
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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The regulation of genes is often more interesting than the genes themselves, and it's the environment that regulates genes.
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Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.
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Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.
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The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.
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If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.
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The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!
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Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.
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Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.
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...I might continue to believe that there is no god even if it were proved that there is. A religious friend of mine once remarked that the concept of god is useful, because you can berate god during the bad times. But it is clear to me that I don't need to believe there is a god in order to berate him.
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We're getting along so well I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.
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