## Metadata author:: [[@Hidden Brain]] publish_date:: reviewed_date:: ## Highlights - could cause me to suddenly risk life and limb with no conscious thought. I wanted to understand how that worked at a neuroscience level. What's going on in the brain? The question again was why evolution, which has sculpted our brains and bodies to be skilled survival machines, would preserve systems in the brain that cause us to act with unthinking haste and violence, haste and violence that can place our own lives at great risk. Doug eventually realized that the answer lay in the question itself. It was all about speed. The conscious brain is too slow, and it doesn't have the capacity. [(Time 0:32:42)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c19f607f205624b602c2fb) - notes:: Blind rage can be linked to the amygdala and an immediate and over the top response to the perception of an imminent threat to survival (or so your body thinks) - risks life and limb. Most of the time, we are well served by being logical and deliberate, but on rare occasions, it's helpful to act with unthinking haste. The operative word here is rare. What Doug is found is that wild red rage erupts in very specific situations. Often when you're defending your most vital interests, the brain controls this response, so that's Onley, tripped by very specific triggers, Doug says. Most of these triggers are related to our basic needs. For example, you can easily imagine an animal or human reacting with protective rage when its own life [(Time 0:35:18)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c1a0067f205624b602db75) - notes:: Brings to mind thoughts of the Dune of Paul, being trained to see if he’s human or an animal - because he was defending something that is a vital importance to humans. Order in society. The Skype broke the rules. He cut in line. We all depend on a functioning social order. Ah, stable rule following society is as essential to our survival as food and shelter. We're willing to fight to maintain such order in social animals in order to maintain order following the rules aggression is what is used. That's still what we use. We use violence now. It's not as if every threat produces mindless rage. Plenty of people see the social order breached or get insulted and don't turn into Rambo. The threshold [(Time 0:37:38)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c1a1927f205624b603138b) - notes:: ASD meltdowns due to stress induced - motivating them, bringing them together in movements towards increased justice. E. This is a mere Srinivasan ah, philosopher at the University of Oxford. Amir recognizes that rage does have costs, but she wants us to remember that it can be useful to communities, causes and individuals. Anger can play this clarifying role for myself so it can help me understand what's going on right. It could make me come to certain kinds of moral and political realizations I didn't have before. I come to realize there's actually a nen justice at work. The [(Time 0:45:11)](https://www.airr.io/quote/63c1a2c07f205624b603355f) - notes:: Confronting bullies as a social signal