Episode 138 - Frustration, Animal Guilt, and Getting Set in Our Ways

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Mike McHargue

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🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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For this week's Ask Science Mike, we address the following questions: Do other animals feel guilt? What happens in our brains when we get frustrated? Is there an age when we get set in our ways? What does a “call from God” mean when you don’t believe that way anymore? You're in charge of this program. All you have to do is submit a question using #asksciencemike on Twitter, YouTube, or Soundcloud. You can also submit questions anonymously on asksciencemike.com. Do other animals feel guilt? Do animals feel guilt? Chimps don't just get mad, they get even Other Minds Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? What happens in our brains when we get frustrated? Effect of Frustration on Brain Activation Pattern in Subjects with Different Temperament NEUROSCIENTISTS CONDUCT THE MOST FRUSTRATING BRAIN SCANNING STUDY EVER 4 Tips to Deal With Frustrating People Is there an age when we get set in our ways? What It Takes To Change Your Brain’s Patterns After Age 25 What does a “call from God” mean when you don’t believe that way anymore? When God Talks Back Preproduction by Andrew Galucki. Ask Science Mike is produced by Gregg Nordin. The Ask Science Mike theme song was written, performed, and recorded by Jeb Bodiford. If you need original podcast music, he's your guy. You've got questions, he's got answers. Even though we may not understand he'll talk anyway. You've got problems, he won't solve them, But he'll talk and talk and talk until he's blue in the face. Science, faith, and life - Ask Science Mike.

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0:00.0	frustration, animal guilt, and getting set in our ways.
0:03.9	All that and more on this week's episode of Ask Science Mike. He's got answers even though he may not understand.
0:15.0	He'll talk anyway.
0:17.0	He got problems.
0:18.0	He won't talk there.
0:20.0	But he's talking talking till the flu in the face.
0:23.8	Science, faith, and life.
0:25.9	Ask Science Mike!
0:30.8	Welcome to Ask Science Mike, the weekly podcast where I answer your questions about science, faith, and life.
0:37.0	I'm your host, Science Mike, not on the internet is Mike McCarg, and we're coming back from a little bit of a break on the program
0:44.7	as I'm back from tour and done with the patron episodes and just in time for the end of the year turning
0:50.4	the show back to normal and speaking of a show let's get it started. Hi science Mike, my name is Pete Wilson and I have a question that I'm looking
1:05.4	right up here out. So where I currently am in my faith journey I believe
1:10.3	religion has been bound up kind of with the experience of guilt as humans and how we handle that in ourselves and others around us.
1:19.0	One of the historical purpose of religion is to help us process and contextualize these powerful experiences of guilt and shame and our sense of justice.
1:27.0	Sometimes religion has done this well and sometimes not so well.
1:30.0	So my current handle on guilt is that it's the felt experience of being out of
1:36.0	harmony with the universe and so I'm wrestling with the question is this feeling of
1:40.9	guilt just an emergent property of a localized
1:43.6	bioelectric chemical process.
1:45.6	That's me, or is guilt a transcendent experience where my feeling actually
1:50.3	comes from the deep connection I was given by and to the force of harmony, love,
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