Andrew Huberman· PhD
Vagus nerve controls “yum”, “yuck” & “meh”.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Vagus nerve controls “yum”, “yuck” & “meh”.
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our nervous system is trying to make decisions about what to do with that information, and so it mainly batches information into yum, I want to keep doing this or approach this thing, or continue down some path of movement, or eating, or staying in a temperature environment, et cetera, or yuck, I need to get out of here, I don't want any more of this, I don't want to keep doing this, this is painful, or aversive, or stressful. And then meh, so if it doesn't really matter, I can just kind of stay right here or not.
I always think of okay and the nervous system likes to code um along a continuum but like yum yuck or meh like do you think that that that a technology is kind of neutral like yeah you lose some things you gain some things or do you think like this is bad