Hannah Frey

I just read Patricia Churchill's Conscience.

It's a book about the evolution of the human conscience.

Like I feel guilt and shame all the time.

But as far as we know, armadillos don't really seem to have as much of a concern for obeying their conscience.

I mean an embarrassed armadillo is quite a good imagine.

An embarrassed armadillo I'm sure could happen.

Like I'm not going to take that dignity away from them.

But where did where did how did this come about?

Like we certainly know that rocks don't appear to have moral codes and feelings of guilt.

Anyway, I highly recommend the book.

But one thing she talked about was that brain scans that try to look for disgust reactions to things like images that are shocking or or revolting your brain's reaction does not seem to correlate with people's reaction on surveys.

So you can show a person a photograph of like a guy with a mouthful of worms and they'll be either like, oh, oh, I hated that.

And some are like, no, it's I mean, it's I wouldn't do it, but I'm not I'm not feeling like horrified, horrified or uncomfortable.

But then their brains will show something different and will be like, I don't know, you were spiking in your amygdala and your fear center and the person's like, I don't know what to tell you.

And so it could be that there's multiple layers in the brain and which one we spy on really matters because my brain might react with horror to something, but that doesn't become the salient feature in my awareness.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't want to be held responsible because my brain involuntarily recognized a crime scene that I don't remember being at.

I can't control how it reacts to things.

At least I feel like I can't.