Why can’t we trigger our own fight or flight response, purposefully, on command?
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“Steven Kaas
You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy standing next to the king going “a most judicious choice, sire”.”
You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy standing next to the king going "a most judicious choice, sire".
— Steven Kaas (@stevenkaas) February 3, 2012
“You” in this means the frontal cortex, where you manipulate symbols. The frontal cortex came to be long after the part of your brain that’s often mislabelled the “lizard brain” was around.
Evolution never hooked up a way for the frontal cortex to engage the adrenal glands.
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