The part of your brain that is reacting to the Israel-Hamas war is not the part of your brain that should be making decisions about policy
ON POLARIZATION (PHYSIOLOGICALLY)
Mammals in danger have two discrete neural threat response systems embedded in our Autonomic physiology. One of them, familiar to most people, is a sympathetic (SNS) system commonly known as the fight-or-flight response, the other is a dorsal vagal system associated with shutdown. The sympathetic system typically responds to danger, the dorsal vagal sys…
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