Ep 104 – The Placebo Effect – Part 1
Infants on Thrones
Glenn Ostlund
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2014
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | First I just wanted to find placebo. |
| 0:04.0 | placebo. |
| 0:05.0 | Pussivo. |
| 0:06.0 | Most people think when I say placebo, it's all in someone's head. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, it's not a real thing but the real reality is and having a biochemical |
| 0:18.8 | physiological change occurring but the difference is there wasn't active medication given to me |
| 0:26.6 | it was an inert medication But I would change the word from belief to expectation. |
| 0:37.0 | But I would change the word from belief to expectation. |
| 0:45.0 | Because it's the expectation of what will follow, |
| 0:48.0 | whether it's positive or negative, that changes that physical state. |
| 0:51.0 | To see both. People. People. Humans. Humans are not the strongest, we're not the bravest, we don't have the sharpest teeth. |
| 1:06.0 | The thing that we're really good at is what we call plasticity. |
| 1:10.0 | Pospicity. |
| 1:11.0 | Pospicity. |
| 1:12.0 | Our brains and bodies and bodies are enormously adaptable. |
| 1:16.0 | There's very little evolutionary bias that you would succeed at a higher rate if you're a better believer. |
| 1:23.0 | But what we see is there's no question that people that belong, |
| 1:28.0 | survived and reproduced at higher rates than people that were ostracized from the group. |
| 1:34.0 | Most religion... that were ostracized from the group. Most religions are based on a lot of what we call costly signal |
| 1:39.0 | or like signs that you're part of the group. |
| 1:42.0 | I wear garments, therefore you can trust me. |
| 1:44.4 | A hundred percent of human survival is based in our ability to be taken care of by |
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