the Westermark effect23:13
“Yeah, the Westermark stuff, right? So, people who were raised with someone, they find just the idea of sex with them.”
“It's certainly got a lot written about it. Paul Bloom has done some nice work on it. Against empathy. Against empathy. And I mean, for the show, it was a friend of the show. I'm going to have to find out who an enemy of the show is. Oh, I've got enough. No, they'll be in the comments.”
“And he did MSG, and I didn't know this because I don't have an Apple Watch, but apparently your Apple Watch can detect the local noise levels and can warn you if you're in an industrial park and the sound's too loud or whatever it is.”
“they're done with this one. Evolutionary psychiatry, good reasons for bad feelings. That's a great book. Unreal. Yeah. Really good. Nice primer as well. Too car garage with your one. Yeah. People should definitely go out and get both.”
“It has this very partsy kind of, as you were saying. That was Robert Wright's Why Buddhism is True when I first learned about that, the modules of the mind. But yeah, so yeah, this idea that you've got these different modules, but kind of the piece you're adding is, and they're all okay. And I'm okay with the modules. And I also think that resonates with this kind of approach to emotions.”
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“Yeah, the Westermark stuff, right? So, people who were raised with someone, they find just the idea of sex with them.”
“And this is Deb Lieberman's work, um, excellent research on this show. Yeah, for the show, um, excellent research showing that the people who you raised with, even if they're not related, but as long as they were in the same spot at the same time, you get your disgusted by the thought of having sex with them.”