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Speaker 1: It is bitter, bitter, he answered, But I like it

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Speaker 1: because it is bitter and because it is my heart.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, you welcome to Stuff to Blow your mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick. And that,

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Speaker 1: of course is the poem in the Desert by Stephen

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Speaker 1: lot of it depends on which word in the last

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Speaker 1: there are several ways to to to to the piece

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Speaker 1: of apart there. But it's also the perfect poem for

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Today's Valentine's Day. I don't know if anyone

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Speaker 1: has ever taken in the Desert and transformed it into

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Speaker 1: a Valentine, but I think that's a fabulous idea. Depending

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Speaker 1: But it's just the right length. You know. You could

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Speaker 1: creature they're consuming its own heart. Uh. Somebody has to

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Speaker 1: have done this before. I'm sure someone will send links

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Speaker 1: to this effect to us. You could put it on

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Speaker 1: those little heart shaped candies that look like they're like

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Speaker 1: as I mean, it has to have been done. It's

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Speaker 1: such a great idea. Does anybody eat those? By the way,

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Speaker 1: that somebody like the taste of chalk enough that they

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Speaker 1: know if they're bitter that would but they are shaped

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Speaker 1: That's such a childhood mentality. It's like, well it's not good,

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Speaker 1: It's it's just polite. Yeah, so yes, It's Valentine's Day

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Speaker 1: at time when we tend to think about the over

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Speaker 1: Where you watching a movie where a heart gets ripped out?

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Speaker 1: time progressed, the nobles gained increasing access to mummification and

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Speaker 1: retained their hearts. With the democratization of ummification, however, the

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Speaker 1: commoners being mummified, we're not receiving the same treatment, possibly

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Speaker 1: to ensure that the elite maintained a more favorable afterlife

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Speaker 1: than their subjects. That went in a different direction than

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Speaker 1: I was expecting. I thought it would just maybe be like, well,

433
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Speaker 1: this is this is a premium service for premium customers.

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Speaker 1: We can't offer the same level of mumification services for

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Speaker 1: a lesser price. But it seems like it also could

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Speaker 1: be ensuring the status quo in the afterlife. It could

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Speaker 1: be because I mean so I don't know how it

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Speaker 1: would necessarily be cheaper to remove the heart than not

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Speaker 1: remove the heart, you know, like it just in terms

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Speaker 1: of the actual cost in the like labor to the embalmers.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, it could be a deliberate choice to

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Speaker 1: sort of create an artificial, uh tiered system for quality

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Speaker 1: of mummification and make sure, well, there's a really special

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Speaker 1: kind of mummification where your heart stays in and that's

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Speaker 1: only available to the elites. But we don't know that

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00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 1: for sure. I want to be very clear, we don't

447
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: know the reasoning. But that is an interesting, plausible scenario

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Speaker 1: that it's like it was in order to create a

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Speaker 1: kind of elite or premium tiered type of mummification at

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Speaker 1: a time when more people were getting mummification at all. Fascinating,

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Speaker 1: But we don't know for sure, and so I think

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Speaker 1: this remains a really interesting question I would love to

453
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Speaker 1: like know more of someone could have more evidence to

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Speaker 1: shed direct light on on why this this difference emerged

455
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Speaker 1: than now. Another scenario of heart removal that that's rather

456
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Speaker 1: rather different in many respects, but one that probably instantly

457
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: comes to many people's minds that I want to discuss

458
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: is the ritual removal of human hearts by the Mayans

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Speaker 1: and the Aztecs, but especially for research purposes. Here, the

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00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: Mayans so the ancient minds are known to have performed

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Speaker 1: human sacrifices involving the removal of the heart, though not

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00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: in the postmortem sense. Um, the removal of the heart

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00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: essentially via ritualistic sacrifice, ritualistic execution. You could think of

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Speaker 1: it as vivisection or um or just or or even

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Speaker 1: death by heart removal, I imagine. One article I was

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Speaker 1: reading on the topic was Procedures in Human Heart Extraction

467
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Speaker 1: and Ritual Meaning by Tessler and Zuccina, published in Latin

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Speaker 1: American Antiquity in two thousand and six. And as you

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Speaker 1: can tell by the title, this is a paper that

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Speaker 1: deals predominantly with the procedures. How were they carrying this out? Um,

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Speaker 1: not so much the you know, the the wise. We'll

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Speaker 1: get into some of the wise, but essentially these were

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Speaker 1: religious practices. Um. But I was not aware that there was.

474
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Speaker 1: There's been so much sort of, so much discussion and

475
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: attempts to understand exactly how the heart was removed. So

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Speaker 1: they looked at skeletal remains a suspected heart removal human

477
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Speaker 1: sacrifice cases and contended that the sacrificers would carry these

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Speaker 1: procedures out. By quote, a trans diaphragmatic and I looked,

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Speaker 1: I had to look that up. Webster says, use the

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Speaker 1: hard g on trans diaphragmatic um. So I'm going with

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Speaker 1: with with what Webster saying. In this case, the definition

482
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Speaker 1: being occurring passing or performed through the diaphragm. You mean

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Speaker 1: the diaphrag um, Yes, the diap um. And so this

484
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: would yeah opening immediately below the rib cage, and this

485
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: would help ensure rapid removal of the heart. And this

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Speaker 1: is where they get into their going up against some

487
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: some previous theories about how they carried this out. In particular,

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Speaker 1: there was an eight to ten minute procedure estimate by

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Speaker 1: Robestic and Hales in four These authors had argued that

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00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: the sacrifice or would have cut through the thorax from

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Speaker 1: side to side, collapsing the lung in the process us

492
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Speaker 1: and this would make the victim unconscious within three to

493
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Speaker 1: four minutes and allow the rest of the surgery to

494
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: proceed without struggle. And they do kind of frame it

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Speaker 1: as kind of a surgery vivisection, with heart removal occurring

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00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: while the heart was still palpitating, which seemed to be

497
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: the desired effect. To pull the heart out while the

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00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: heart seems to still have life in it. Another analysis

499
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: from Gonzalez Torres argued as well for a below the

500
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 1: ribs approach, but stressed that the exact style may have

501
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: varied from region to regions. So again we get into

502
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: a similar situation with mummification. Just because one um mummification

503
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Speaker 1: lab was doing it one way doesn't mean they were

504
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: doing it the same way at another lab at another time.

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00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: And likewise, the way hearts were removed via blood ritual

506
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Speaker 1: blood sacrifice in one instance, it might be different in another. Uh,

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00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, different styles for different sacrifices, or some sort

508
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: of evolution of style Tesla and chacina. Meanwhile, right quote,

509
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: it must be underlined in this context that ritual heart

510
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: removal entailed a violent vivisection of a struggling victim, and

511
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: was therefore quicker and fundamentally distinctive from the cautious procedures

512
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Speaker 1: implied in a quote unquote surgical operation as visualized by

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Speaker 1: Rubasacon Hales. Now, the sacrificial victims in these situations were

514
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Speaker 1: typically enslaved people, sometimes children or prisoners of war who

515
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Speaker 1: were and and I'm reading that they were often either

516
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: painted blue first or pelted with arrows, and once the

517
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: heart was removed, its blood was generally used to smear

518
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Speaker 1: or anoint some sort of divine icon or some sort

519
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: of structure, that sort of thing. Now, as sacrifices, these

520
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: would have had a religious significance. Is the significance of

521
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: the act better understood than than maybe the significance of

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Speaker 1: the removal or non removal of the heart in the

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Speaker 1: Egyptian example, I believe so based on the work I

524
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Speaker 1: was looking at. There's a paper here by Tesla and

525
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 1: Oliver in Open Caskets and Broken Hearts. Great great title

526
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: from a edition of Current Anthropology, and the authors here

527
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: are right that the quote partitioning and the liberation of

528
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: vitalizing matter, namely the heart and blood, fed specific sacred

529
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: forces during divine cult and mythic reenactment. They also provide

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00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: a note on Aztec sacrifices quote. As for the Aztecs,

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Speaker 1: we conclude that different trunk opening procedures were practiced as

532
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: part of ritual sequences that in each case enabled access

533
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: to the cosmics sacred mountain with its vivifying essences. So,

534
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: in other words, hearts and blood were essentially food for

535
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: gods of the Sun and gods of the earth deities

536
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: who in turn sacrificed or more intern or you could say,

537
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: originally sacrificed something to create the universe. And the sacrifices

538
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: here were acts of all the the actual blood ritual sacrifices,

539
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: not the mythological sacrifices, were acts of quote, obligation, reciprocation,

540
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: and re enactment. So there are several different things going

541
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Speaker 1: on there, Like there's a sort of a mythic understanding

542
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: of what the heart and the blood is. There's this

543
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: re enactment of things that occurred in sacred time, the

544
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: idea that there is some sort of of blood ritual

545
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: and sacrifice that occurred with mythological beings, and the thing

546
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: that is taking place in the sacrifice is important insofar

547
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: as it is re enacting this mythic incident. And there's

548
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: this also, you know, basically like what we we sort

549
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: of generalize about sacrifice. Something is offered up so that

550
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: something else may be offered down to us as humans.

551
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: They also mentioned in this article that while the under

552
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: the rib technique does seem more common, and I believe

553
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: this is a slightly later work, there are three distinct

554
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: tactics that were used. There's cutting directly under the ribs,

555
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: there's making an incision between two ribs, and then there's

556
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: horizontally severing the stern um in order to access the heart.

557
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: But again it seems like going under the ribs was

558
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: the most common technique mm hmm. Now additionally, and just

559
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: sort of like trying to, you know, get into the whole,

560
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: like what what did ancient people and in this case,

561
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 1: what did the Mayans who are engaging in heart removal sacrifice?

562
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: What did they think of the heart? What other ideas

563
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: were we're going on regarding the center of our circulatory system.

564
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: On this I found an interest discussion of ideas concerning

565
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: the human body among the Satal people, because at all

566
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: people are a Mayan people in southern Mexico. UM. So

567
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: in this particular work, it is the ethno Physiology of

568
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: the Satal Maya of the Highland Chapests by Cameron Littleton Adams.

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Speaker 1: This was a Doctor's of Philosophy dissertation from the University

570
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: of Georgia. So I'm not going to get into everything

571
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: that's discussed here. And again this is not the Mayan

572
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: people of old, but contempt arre Mayan people's um but

573
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: there are these interesting ideas in their thinking about the

574
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: connection of the heart to cognition. Uh, not thinking with

575
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: the heart instead of the brain, but sort of thinking

576
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: with it. So I found that kind of interesting because

577
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: there are some other instances we'll get into as well.

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00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: And in addition to the Egyptian model, where uh, this

579
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: seems like maybe a modern twist on on these older

580
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: ideas of the heart being the center of thought, in

581
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,760
Speaker 1: the center of being. Uh So, maybe it's a situation

582
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: where like in the modern world, you know that the

583
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: brain is the center of cognition, but there's still the

584
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: symbolic and metaphorical importance of the heart as being something

585
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: vital to who we are and having some sort of

586
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: emotional connection which I think we can all relate to that,

587
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: especially on Valentine's Day, like we're so on Valentine's Day,

588
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: were so steeped in this idea that, yeah, the heart

589
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,959
Speaker 1: is not just a thing that pumps blood. Uh yeah,

590
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: And there is to some degree some accurate re seeing

591
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: wisdom in that way of thinking, because of course, well,

592
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: I think it is quite clear that the brain is

593
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: the necessary organ for cognition, Like you couldn't have thinking

594
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: without the brain, that the rest of the body influences

595
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,399
Speaker 1: the thinking that happens in the brain, and the brain

596
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: is not like a thing floating apart from the body. Yeah. Now,

597
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: Adams has this wonderful little line in here. I want

598
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: to read. Um. I found this very fascinating quote. Further,

599
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: health is referred to by the semantic pair walking and working,

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00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: and the heart is conceived of as a homunculous, an

601
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: internal being that makes commands that must be obeyed. Now,

602
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 1: I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth or

603
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: or visualizations in anyone else's worldview, so I don't think

604
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: this is supposed to literally be a homunculus or this

605
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: idea that like the heart, that in each of us

606
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 1: there's like a squat, little like tough, little um like

607
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: red flesh being that lives in the center of our

608
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: chest and sort of um, you know, puppet masters the

609
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: rest of us. It's more like an idea of like

610
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: what's going on in the heart versus what's going on

611
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: on the outside. It's this It is more metaphorical, but

612
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: I think it's still an intriguing idea. Well, and I

613
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: could be misunderstanding, but I kind of read that as

614
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's suggesting the heart as a something

615
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: that is separate from the conscious mind but has desires

616
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: of its own that must be obeyed. Yeah, yeah, I

617
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: think that's fair as well, though it is it's hard

618
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 1: for me to not just picture like literal homunculous in

619
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 1: the heart. But I know that's not what the what

620
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: the the author is going for here, But it's it's

621
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: interesting to think about all this. Like when we think

622
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: about heart and brain, we think, okay, brain is thought,

623
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: heart is his certain story system. But of course if

624
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: we we know that the two need each other like

625
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: they can, the brain cannot live independent of some sort

626
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: of heart, uh that is doing the job of the heart,

627
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: be that a transplanted heart or an artificial heart like

628
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: that is a role that has to be filled for

629
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: the brain to do its thing as well. And that

630
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: feedback from an input from the rest of the body

631
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: affects how the brain works. That that for in an

632
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: incredibly mundane ways that you're familiar with, such as like

633
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: you think different when you're hungry, like when you're getting

634
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: feedback from your digestive system or something, or from your

635
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: blood sugar, that's going to affect the way you feel

636
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: and the way you think. But it's also in much

637
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: subtler and stranger ways as well, that there's a relationship

638
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: between what's happening and say, your gut microbiome and the

639
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: way your brain works, and on and on. Yeah. Yeah,

640
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: And then of course there's the very simple observation that, hey,

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Speaker 1: when I am very excited, when I'm agitated, my heart

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Speaker 1: is beating very slowly, and realizing that, yeah, they're they're

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Speaker 1: our chest. All right, well, I think maybe we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to call this episode there for part one, but

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Speaker 1: we will be back in part two to discuss more

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Speaker 1: heart removal traditions and thoughts about heart removal from the

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Speaker 1: point of view of other cultures. In in Norse traditions,

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Speaker 1: in uh, in medieval Christianity, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: boiling some crusaders. Uh, It's it's gonna be fun. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there will be more human sacrifice, there will be more

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Speaker 1: heart removal. Uh and and much more. So be sure

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Speaker 1: to check back in on Thursday as we continue our

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Speaker 1: our special Valentine's Day celebration of the removed heart. In

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Speaker 1: the meantime, if you would like to listen to other

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Speaker 1: episodes Stuff to Blow Your Mind, well you will find

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Speaker 1: them all in the Stuff to Blow Your Mind podcast feed.

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Speaker 1: We have our core episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On

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Speaker 1: Monday's we do a listener mail episode. On Wednesdays the

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Speaker 1: normal schedule as we do a short form monster effect

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Speaker 1: or Artifact episode, and on Fridays we set aside most

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Speaker 1: serious concerns to do an episode of Weird House Cinema.

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Speaker 1: That's where really most of the heart ripping takes place

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Speaker 1: on this show, huge thanks to our audio producer J J. Pauseway.

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Speaker 1: If you would like to get in touch with us

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Speaker 1: a topic for the future, or just to say hello,

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Speaker 1: you can email us at contact at stuff to Blow

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Speaker 1: your Mind dot com. Stuff to Blow Your Mind's production

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