Val Curtis

Yes, and everybody would understand it wherever you were in the world.

Yes, and everybody would understand it wherever you were in the world.

So my definition of disgust is a system that evolved in the first place to help us avoid parasites and pathogens. But when you've got a system like that, that is so useful, and we use the same neurons to detect social disgust and moral disgust as we do to detect pathogen disgust, I think it's reasonable to call it the same thing.

So my definition of disgust is a system that evolved in the first place to help us avoid parasites and pathogens. But when you've got a system like that, that is so useful, and we use the same neurons to detect social disgust and moral disgust as we do to detect pathogen disgust, I think it's reasonable to call it the same thing.

So my definition of disgust is a system that evolved in the first place to help us avoid parasites and pathogens. But when you've got a system like that, that is so useful, and we use the same neurons to detect social disgust and moral disgust as we do to detect pathogen disgust, I think it's reasonable to call it the same thing.

So disgust is but one of a functional set of motives that make us do the things that were good for our ancestors. And they're there in all of us all the time and they drive a huge amount of what we do. And it's very poorly recognized that that is the complete and necessary set of motives you need to be a human being.

So disgust is but one of a functional set of motives that make us do the things that were good for our ancestors. And they're there in all of us all the time and they drive a huge amount of what we do. And it's very poorly recognized that that is the complete and necessary set of motives you need to be a human being.

So disgust is but one of a functional set of motives that make us do the things that were good for our ancestors. And they're there in all of us all the time and they drive a huge amount of what we do. And it's very poorly recognized that that is the complete and necessary set of motives you need to be a human being.

Our motives compete for our attention at every moment. And the one which is the strongest is the one that's going to win. So if it's been a long time since you've had a, what am I allowed to say on the radio?

Our motives compete for our attention at every moment. And the one which is the strongest is the one that's going to win. So if it's been a long time since you've had a, what am I allowed to say on the radio?

Our motives compete for our attention at every moment. And the one which is the strongest is the one that's going to win. So if it's been a long time since you've had a, what am I allowed to say on the radio?

You've had a shag. Can you say that?

You've had a shag. Can you say that?

You've had a shag. Can you say that?

So if it's a long time since you've had a shag, you're going to be much more likely to be attracted by the somewhat smelly, greasy hunk who's proposing himself to you than if you had a good one the day before. So it's not your level of disgust that's going up and down. It's the trade-off that you're making that's going up and down.

So if it's a long time since you've had a shag, you're going to be much more likely to be attracted by the somewhat smelly, greasy hunk who's proposing himself to you than if you had a good one the day before. So it's not your level of disgust that's going up and down. It's the trade-off that you're making that's going up and down.

So if it's a long time since you've had a shag, you're going to be much more likely to be attracted by the somewhat smelly, greasy hunk who's proposing himself to you than if you had a good one the day before. So it's not your level of disgust that's going up and down. It's the trade-off that you're making that's going up and down.

If you haven't eaten for weeks the sandwich that has got mold on it, you might scrape the mold off, but you're going to eat it.

If you haven't eaten for weeks the sandwich that has got mold on it, you might scrape the mold off, but you're going to eat it.

If you haven't eaten for weeks the sandwich that has got mold on it, you might scrape the mold off, but you're going to eat it.