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The Logic of Rage

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

'Crazy Man'

Duck's behaviour disturbed him as a father, but he also wanted to understand how the brain worked. He pondered this question as he wrote a book called why we snap and violence can cause us to act with unthinking haste and violence that can put our lives at great risk. It was all about speed: The conscious is too slow, and it doesn't have the capacity to respond faster when you're faced with a sudden threat of death or injury. So if something in my environment could cause me to suddenly risk life and limb with no conscious thought, i wanted to understandHow that worked on a neura level. What's going on in the brain? That has evolved our brains

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