Should the UK royal family be 100 percent English with a good old English name or mixed blood with a surname of Patel. How do we decide?

The answer is that it doesn't really matter because when we are afraid, the human brain will make the decision for us whether we want it to or not. When the body begins to have a stress response (aka fight-or-flight or a fear response), all logic and our ability to reason literally go out the window. The frontal lobe shuts down almost entirely (the part of the brain that gives humans self-awareness and we use to reason) and the primitive brain takes over (the part of our brain that resembles the brains of other mammals).

The priority the brain follows in a fear response is Freeze, Run, Hide, Fight. It can make bad choices. For example, given enough threat, humans will eventually run from a predator even when they logically know that running will trigger a predator's attack response.

In a fear situation, the primitive brain will always win out. But, the primitive brain is also very good at making decisions for us that keep us alive. The brain makes them for us automatically.

You don't have to think to breath. Your brain does it for you. This primitive brain of ours does all sorts of cool things when we are scared.

It decreases our heart rate. It increases our blood vessel diameter and lung capacity so we can push more oxygen through our blood in the event that we need to run (and this helps us run faster for longer). It dilates our pupils to increase our vision and dedicates more attention to useful survival tools like pattern recognition.

It also shuts down unnecessary systems in our body in order to focus all energy on the systems that will keep us alive. This is why people may wet themselves when scared. They aren't doing that by choice.

The brain will shut down the entire digestive system when it's in the deepest throws of fear because it thinks we could die. It prioritizes systems that keep you alive and it can't afford to monitor the contents of our bladder while simultaneously trying to expend energy on things like increased lung capacity. Pretty cool science!

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