Why can’t we trigger our own fight or flight response, purposefully, on command?

Question

Why can’t we trigger our own fight or flight response, purposefully, on command?

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Answer 1

The response is involuntary because waiting for your thought processes to finish to decide whether or not to activate a response is counterproductive to survival. The whole reason we have a panic system to provide that response is to have an instantaneous reaction. All the Neanderthals who had to think about whether or not to induce an adrenaline response were still thinking about it when they died presumably