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How free solo climber Alex Honnold faces fear
ReThinking
Is the Amigdla the Threat Detection System?
Scientists found that you had limited amidula activation in your brain, at least in response to t e sort of ordinary stimuli. You've trained your brain to not detect a threat in a life and death situation or at least not to respond as as quickly and intensely as most people would. So if they see a picture of a spider, it triggers the same thing as if there was a spider there. It seems perfectly natural that my migdalo wouldn't trigger while looking at pictures while laying in a safe metal tube.
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