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Social Survival as We Get Older, There's a Biology to It
When it comes to the architecture of our nervous system and how it perceives things, it hasn't necessarily separated life-threatening danger from social survival kind of danger. Our biology and all the internal working models that get created starting from the moment of birth are going on within us at all times. And so we can't eliminate the idea that although social survival as we get older is less life threatening, there's a biology to it. As we get older and as our brains develop, we do have the capacity to use more complex and later evolved kinds of features of our brain in terms of possible other options.