ANT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Holding Hands, Neocortex, Intentionality
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Holding hands with a friend but not a stranger helps us modulate/reduce fear emotions, naturalization shaped specialization in the neocortex. How mirror neurons might contribute to fear emotion reduction hand holding: Brain goes quiet: network of friends contributes to a stronger and happier life. Perceive an immediate threat to fuel/get aggressive; mobilizes resources metabolically and suppresses everything else. Journalist"s ability: doesn"t have a lot of pain. Fear reduction better with someone you know v. someone you don"t know. Associate memories with what our body is feeling. Can"t induce emotional mirror if we don"t know somebody that well. Can go 1 day without food but must deal with failure forever. Being able to mirror and deal with relationships: dope and grieve gradually: survive with relatively risky niche. Forming preferential bonds supported bouncing back after failure and sharing in success. Body brachial mammal gestures and gaze direction as involving more specific planning and intent.
