Fight or flight mechanism


	Fight or flight mechanism

mrentropy

9-24-2008 10:23 AM

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mrentropy says:

Taken from Cracked.com's article about brainwashing.

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Because we evolved from creatures who were always in danger of being eaten, our brains were built on a very simple foundation: the "fight or flight" mechanism. This let us make lightning-fast decisions by boiling every situation into two options. Anyone who preferred to stop and mull over the subtleties of the scenario wound up in the digestive system of a saber-tooth tiger.
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Fast forward thousands of years and you find a humanity with much fancier brains but <A href="http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/Understanding_Depression/all_nothing.html" target="c" linkindex="26">that still prefers all-or-nothing choices</A> when we're put under stress. 
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