This is Darmapunks, New York. I'm Josh. If you'd like to support my work, you can

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sustain me because I don't charge for anything I do, or on the website. So tonight, I'm just

going to jump right into the talk, disgust, which we don't think of generally as a sophisticated

emotion. We generally think of it as the e-feeling that shows up when we find,

I don't know, a hair in our food, or we step on something squishy, barefoot, or we stumble

across a dead animal. Discuss seems like a very low-level, raw, primitive impulse effect.

But it's much, much more than that.

Tonight's talk is going to investigate all the much less familiar aspects of disgust,

how it's not just about hygiene, but how it's amongst the

most powerful impulses that regulate our behavior. It not only protects us from physical harm,

but it guides our emotional and social and moral perspectives.

Discussed, like many deeply rooted instincts,

lives in a region of the brain called the insula,

which is a very small region tucked very, very deep in the brain.

The insula you can think of as a kind of a foreign news correspondent reporting to us from a

distant land what's going on in very unfamiliar regions of the world.

In terms of the brain, the insula, is reporting to us what our body is doing, and it integrates all of the varied feelings, muscle tensions,

all the shifts in our body into what we call feelings. In other words, the body is just made up of all these ongoing, subtle, and

sometimes abrupt shifts in muscle clenching, breathing rates, constrictions, states of comfort,

discomfort, nausea, desire, all these different fluidly shifting states.

The insula that sort of takes all the different body morphings and fluid changes and reports it to your frontal lobe where your consciousness

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