Antithesis

you mean sort of eye for an eye? Exactly, eye for an eye.

And so some people will go to the Sermon on the Mount, and a section of the Sermon on the Mount that's called the Antitheses.

And the antitheses are Jesus's kind of one-upmanship.

This is where you have heard that it was said, don't do this while I say to you, you know, we're going to ratchet it up.

So the first band that we're going to go into is Ariel.

The song Foreign Coast from the album Foresight 2016.

This is

Progressive Metalcore.

Those together, the dichotomy of that is just awesome, dude.

I really appreciate that.

And I like his vocal work, especially on this album, the clean vocals.

They don't sound necessarily overproduced, but they still sound like...

We're speaking with neuroscientist Ishmael Abdu-Sabour, who studies the brain and our sense of touch.

I do want to turn to your important work in Antithesis to Pain, which is about gentle touch and social touch and pleasing touch.

So I'm both curious what drew you in this other direction, and of course, how the receptors involved in gentle touch or stroking touch are different from pain receptors, and why this is so important in the social fabric of possibly both animals and humans.

Great question.

But I wanna dig into this true names concept a bit more.

Let's do that because it is the complete philosophical antithesis of the Sanderson approach we just discussed.

Antithesis is the perfect word.

In Sanderson's world, magic is an external tool.

It is a resource to be consumed, like burning coal in a furnace.

Ugh.

And I'm sure one of the things that you guys are gonna agonize over is this idea of the thèse, antithèse, synthèse argument.

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

I love that nowhere in that is, like, your opinion.