Sapolsky Thursday.
I'm not there yet, but one question is about ritual pain in religion, so that may be a trigger for some. 💜
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#ND #ActuallyAutistic (because there's talk of super powers)
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https://youtu.be/tKZ2owmV638?si=bnGZfIJ1gcMUOk0S
The Woman Who Smells Parkinson’s, Flagellation | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews #103

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My comment to them, my interpretation of the first question, an ongoing conversation I'm having with y'all:
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"Interesting . . . you know hyperolfactor . . . super smell is one of those things we acknowledge as "comorbid," along with Autism, maybe other neurotypes, I was going to ask if her and her family look Autistic, and maybe her moral quandary suggests it too - but her busy, productive life sure doesn't, LOL. They are separate matters, and the point maybe isn't, "common among Autistics," as again - did you see last week's question submission? - maybe the point is, "no longer common among Neurotypicals." Again, these superpowers are evolved, that's where the magic comes from, super smell isn't an occasional accident for the dogs or the rats (or bears), is it? So why, and how could it be for humans? Super powers are evolved features modern humans have let go.
Sorry, back to it. 😊"
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EDIT TO ADD, finished listening, final comments:
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"My two cents' worth about self-flagellation, it's what I think about spanking, it reinforces the group mentality, it makes you aggrieved so that you need an out-group, it's a social, genetic engineering thing, reinforces aggression. I mean, every church is a group."
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"Ah, looks like I answered your last few lines before you said them, yes, it magically sets a higher bar for guilt, sets it at the out-group. Aggrieving ourselves is a technology, I swear." 💜
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#ND #ActuallyAutistic
OK, settle down, brain.
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- no no no, hear me out!
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Oh, FFS. Fine, I know you're not going to do another damned thing until you do. Spit it out.
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- all these superpowers are buried in the genome, well, OK, perhaps some are extinct, but many are still there, and so the path to the goddam superhuman is to tease them out of the diversity, to conserve what diversity we have and it's the exact fucking opposite of what this species keeps trying to do, the idiots talk about the superman while erasing any possible chance of ever seeing one.
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But that stupid dream would actually be possible if they weren't completely upside down and backwards.
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#ND #ActuallyAutistic @autistics