RR Phantom
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| Subject: Death... it's someone else's problem! How the human brain is wired to stop you thinking about your own demise Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:19 pm | |
| The human brain is wired make us believe that death only happens to other people to stop us obsessing about the inevitable.
Researchers found that by banishing thoughts of death, people are able to enjoy life in the moment and not worry about what will happen in the future.
As children begin to understand that everybody dies, the mechanism switches on to stop an onslaught of morbid thoughts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7590781/Human-brain-wired-stop-thinking-death-making-believe-affects-people.html |
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CovOps
Location : Ether-Sphere Job/hobbies : Irrationality Exterminator Humor : Über Serious
| Subject: Re: Death... it's someone else's problem! How the human brain is wired to stop you thinking about your own demise Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:34 pm | |
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- 'We have this primal mechanism that means when the brain gets information that links self to death, something tells us it's not reliable, so we shouldn't believe it.'
What a lot of nonsense. Yet another horseshit 'study.' |
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