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I'm OK, you're OK - Thomas Harris https://t.co/Tk94k9yht1
"Son, I don't farm half as good as l know how already." Why are we like this? Why do we not act in accordance with the truths we know to be true? Can we do better? How? Is that desirable? Worthwhile? Is there a meta-truth that needs internalizing? Or is it mindless resistance
In 1951, Dr. Wilder Penfield lightly probed the temporal cortex of his patients' brains with a weak electric current. This consistently triggered specific recollections, relivings of specific memories of specific events, and the feelings associated with those events
(There's a common thread in the things I've been reading and thinking about lately. Something about body language and hormones and states and heirarchies and transactions and belief systems. Emotions and embodiment and non-verbal communication. Time to make another video.)