Drop Dead Fear: Can Extreme Terror Really Kill You?
History, anthropology, and modern medicine show that in rare cases, intense fear can actually stop the heart and end a life.
History, anthropology, and modern medicine show that in rare cases, intense fear can actually stop the heart and end a life.
Horror movies are basically erectile foreplay for the nervous system. When Regan starts levitating in The Exorcist, your body doesn’t distinguish between “demon child” and “sexy danger.” It just floods you with adrenaline, cortisol, endorphins, and dopamine, the same cocktail you get during, well, other exciting activities.
Here, sin does not exist.
You are not a monster for loving meat. You are a human being in a complex, perhaps simulated, certainly quantum, reality. The commandment protects people. Animals are NPCs in a magnificent ecosystem. Quantum observation gives you the choice. And Cypher whispers: ignorance, or better, enlightened acceptance, is bliss.
Philosophical discussions around necessity, morality, metaphysics, and the tension between human survival, consciousness, and systems of law.