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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

Okay, well, anyway, I'll take it from here, Chuck.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

Because the reason you brought that up is screams activate fire flight mode in some really like basic ways, as we'll see.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

And so a scream actually activates in you, a human who hears a scream, that readiness to like either spring into action or run like hell or freeze.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

Or fawn is the other one now because the fight or flight syndrome has really come a long way since we last talked about it.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

And fawn is the response that you want when a baby's crying.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

You want to go over and be like, oh, it's okay.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

Yeah, and it's a lot faster to basically activate us than the normal speech that we hear, right?

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

So when you talk, when you're making just talk, like I am right now, say, this is a good example.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

I'm using this description as an example in real time, okay?

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

So I'm using my laryngeal motor cortex.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

That's basically running the show right now, and that is a higher brain process, right?

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

So I'm using cognition.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

I'm figuring out how my mouth should move, which also requires fine motor coordination.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

I'm processing sound.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

I think from our internal dialogue episode, I'm doing a quick quality check right before I actually say the words.

Stuff You Should Know
THE HUMAN SCREAM

Yeah, sound like Josh.