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Joseph LeDoux is one of the greatest living neuroscientists in the world. He is an expert in understanding fear and anxiety. He’s in the tent today to explain why I’m anxious, where consciousness comes from, and how to be less afraid. WELCOME. TO. CAMP. 🏕️

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** TIME STAMPS **
00:00 Why are we anxious today?
3:52 Animals v Humans complexities
9:14 Behaviors aren’t accurate + creating habits
16:50 Motivated by goal, memory + mental models
22:49 Consciousness is a read-out of our mental models
30:41 What drives our behavior? Amodel language of thought
37:37 Studying consciousness + we make up stuff to make sense of the world
47:54 3 kinds of consciousness
53:17 People’s desire for narratives + all memories are fake
56:22 Careful what you say to yourselves + locking yourself into narratives
1:03:24 How to break your own narratives?
1:04:25 Different forms of Memories + Amygdala’s role
1:12:47 Where is fear formed?
1:15:34 Epigenetics
1:20:40 Practicality of LeDoux’s views + medications’ limitations
1:30:25 Psychiatry rejected subjectivity + therapies to deal with anxiety
1:44:34 Consolidating memories + Stopping memories forming
1:54:23 “The Four Realms of existence” + biology already shapes our decisions
2:03:45 Existence’s tiering + AI can never be conscious
2:12:30 The Amygdaloids