LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoCan you ELI5 why the brain doesn't store traumatic memories properly?message-squaremessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareCan you ELI5 why the brain doesn't store traumatic memories properly?LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square18linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoWho’s to decide what “properly” actually means in an evolutionary context? At some point in the past, this behavior either gave us a survival advantage in some way, or at the very least, didn’t hurt our survival chances.
minus-squareheartSagan5@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoIt likely added a “pattern” for a basis to avoid re-occurrence.
Who’s to decide what “properly” actually means in an evolutionary context? At some point in the past, this behavior either gave us a survival advantage in some way, or at the very least, didn’t hurt our survival chances.
It likely added a “pattern” for a basis to avoid re-occurrence.