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Patrick Atwater
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I had fun tonight explore a conjecture that I've had that men are actually more emotional than women but our current cultural codes don't provide the skills to manage and effectively channel emotional energy. I think that people often mislabel emotions as irrationality or other stuff like that through really they seem pretty clearly to me to be an evolutionary adaptive tool that's a foundational part of human intelligence -- much more so that say the brain actually. (The endocrine system is closer to firmware in an OS analogy.) Emotions are something like a predictive states machine to quickly shift the internal computational environment. Closing out one software program and opening another for example. Consider something like shame. That's a tool for navigating a percieved future risk of group ostracizement, a powerful threat to a human's survival in most of our evolutionary existence. Anywho here's the takeaway from gpt https://chatgpt.com/share/67dbab48-af10-8013-9ea2-0a14a0a1e4b3
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