{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy","description":"I am Daniel B\u00f6ttger1. In 2023, my review of  On The Marble Cliffs took second in the ACX book review contest, and Scott offered me the right to pitch him more essays. I have worked as a neuroscientist, so in 2024 I pitched a post with  my theory of consciousness. Later that year, my connection to neuroscience took an unexpected turn, and I wrote about  my experience getting diagnosed with brain cancer. This post is an update on how I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m doing well. Very well, in fact. Suspiciously well. So well that the only other person I\u2019ve ever heard of doing as well as I am was Jo Cameron, who was  profiled on ACX for her rare genetic mutation that makes her incapable of negative emotion. My case can\u2019t be a mutation, so it must be related to my brain cancer and subsequent surgery. I write about it here in the hopes of making a novel contribution to the study of low-suffering phenotypes. Content warning: the first part of this review contains medical details that some people might find gruesome; I am bad at judging these things since I can no longer feel disgust or fear myself, and have tried to err on the side of completeness.  https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/absurd-adventure-and-amygdalectomy&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Astral Codex Ten Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/sscpodcast.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/43170208\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/43170208"}