Posted by:
Dr. No
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Date: July 07, 2020 11:44AM
Psychopaths.
If these are put under functional-MRI neuroimaging their amygdalae are "cold" -- essentially non-functional (along with other areas of the brain where live allegiances, principal, ethics, compassion). These go through life with no fear. These do what they want uninhibited by a moral sense. Dumb ones end up incarcerated. Smart ones end up CEO's.
(Fun book is The Wisdom of Psychopaths - Kevin Dutton)
Or there is a neuroscientist
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/life-as-a-nonviolent-psychopath/282271/Also some YouTube stuff on him for those interested who are visual learners (he's kind of a fun guy)
The biopsychoevolutionary argument is we are (if normal) "wired" to be anxious.
With anxiety comes vigilance -- those too relaxed were dinner for the tigers and poisoned by snakes, so all of us today are offspring of the surviving anxious, and so inherited their vigilance. (Next time you are on a run through the woods note that your vision automatically locks onto any horizontally configured twig or stick on the path -- that's a part of this inherited evolutionary wiring)
So one question is, are we first anxious and then the thinking-brain finds a reason for our anxiety?
Why are the incredibly wealthy and successful still often anxious?
The other thing is, we can think ahead and conceive various scenarios - adaptive for survival -- but it is a double-edged sword. The tendency is often to forecast the worst scenario "what ifs" which explains for us the anxiety that was always there already. For any life circumstance, anxiety is driven by the prognosticated worst scenario outcome.
Different take on an interesting OP