How Do Brains Work?

I can comment on this post! Since the first time I saw Star Wars, I have referred to the character of Queen Amygdala rather than Amidala. What a difference a little "g" makes!

The article was an interesting read I’ve always understood the concept of the “fight or flight” response, but never knew the actual scientific name for it. When I was reading through the article I couldn’t help but think of instances where the Amygdala might have been taking a day off? I can’t count how many times; I’ve have seen people (let’s say) feeding Geese and out of the clear blue the mother Goose attacks them. This is a prime example of the Amygdala taking a day off. It points back to the idea that the article mentions “The Amygdala seems to be specialized in alerting us to things that are emotionally important to us — either positive or because they're scary” The person feeding the bird does not see the Goose emotionally important (or in a “scary” way) so they stand closer to the bird than they should, and get attacked. Another good example (referring back to the article), it was summarizing the fact that evolutionally speaking, humans do not have a pre-set negative Amygdala response to bridges, buildings, structures, and the like. This brings me to the idea, that maybe this is the reason why some people are accident prone. I wonder is this the reason why we stub our toes, bump our heads, trip over cracks in the sidewalk, walk into street poles, etc.;? Because we do not see some physical structures as threats or was it that our Amygdala took a day off? I’m not sure anyway, but overall it was an interesting article that gave me something to think about. Thanks