Why are we able to use the brain to fight the urge to sneeze or vomit, when it’s the brain that’s urging us to do so?

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Why are we able to use the brain to fight the urge to sneeze or vomit, when it’s the brain that’s urging us to do so?

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There’s roughly 3 parts in the limbic brain. See the Wikipedia article about the evolution. The mammal or reptilian brain is the one that wants to sneeze, the neopallium one is (sometimes) able to suppress the urge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbic_system

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