I watched a documentary recently (Free Solo), and in one part of the film, it showed via an MRI that the main character has ‘no activation in your amygdala’. What does this mean?
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The amygdala activates our “flight or fight” instinct (people have added other words to this like “freeze”) which essentially is our survival mechanism. Dude in *Free Solo* has no survival instinct. I remember this movie but forgot this detail and yep. ‘splains a lot.
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