Why can’t your brain control bodily functions if they know it’ll be embarrassing or wrong

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So why does your brain know and panic that you need to get to the loo say to be sick or poop etc but not control it until you get there? Your brain literally tells you that you can’t do this bodily function where you are currently and makes you panic, then proceeds to do it anyway if you’re not fast enough?

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Because our involuntary actions have no concept of “embarrassment.” If you are sick, all your physiology is concerned with is getting rid of whatever is making you sick as quickly as possible. You are panicking because you are fighting your instinct (for lack of a better word, not quite the same), which is difficult/impossible to consciously control.

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