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Benjamin Edelen wrote:
Your animal brain can and will fabricate whatever feelings and memories are necessary to convince you of two things: First to avoid situations that it feels will result in danger to itself, and second to convince you that its influence does not exist.
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Ben, I'm with you on the first point, and curious about the second. Can say a little more about how this works? (Presumably, there's some evolutionary advantage to it, but I'm not sure I can see what it is.)