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Gigi Cockell

Sep 20, 2026

3:50
Gigi, you want to start?
3:53
The way that I always explain this is there are two different forms of warning signals.
4:01
There's the warning signal that happens when we burn our hand on a stove and our brain is detecting the change in sensory information and it's alerting us to that.
4:09
But there's this other alternative form of warning signal that we never really knew existed before.
4:17
And this warning signal, for me, the way that I like to explain it is it comes in the form of emotional overwhelm.
4:24
And I always liken it to, you know, our brain is a little bit like a computer and just like any computer, there's a finite amount of processing power.
4:32
And so if we have a thousand different tabs open on our computer what happens is it buffers.

19 MINS LATER

23:24
predicted coding gone awry.

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