- Building Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent without radio, without newspapers, without a whole lot of people to interact with, without anybody having any sort of similar background to me.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a molecular level how a neuron dies after a stroke, a seizure, Alzheimer's, brain aging, and what these stress hormones do to make it worse.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby - any of those, they give you more outlets, more of a sense of control, more of a sense of predictability, of social support. They give you the means to psychologically finesse ambiguous outside reality.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not especially a writer back in college.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020
Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.
- Discrepancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the 1920s, when people are starving, suddenly makes 'populist' answers and scapegoating different groups as the source of the problem much more appealing.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of humans as inherently rational beings has been not only trashed in economics, but trashed in all the best research on moral decision-making.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other, the 'them,' to treat that group horribly is made much easier.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.
- Hippie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
From spending my decades thinking about behavior and the biological influences on it, I'm convinced by now free will is what we call the biology that hasn't been discovered yet. It's just another way of stating that we're biological organisms determined by the physical laws of the universe.
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of necessity, a scientist typically studies one incredibly tiny sliver of some biological system, totally ensconced within one discipline, because even figuring out how one sliver works is really hard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the single most important question is how to construct a society that is just, safe, peaceful - all those good things - when people finally accept that there is no free will.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020