Mind and Suspense II
The recent Newsweek article on fear and Blog by Bruce Schneier on The psychology of security talks about Fear and logic and how Fear overrides the logic. This reminded me of my old blog about Mind and Suspense where I was trying to figure out how the suspense overrides the rational thinking of the brain. These articles helps to explain the reason. The article in Newsweek by “Sharon Begley “says“ The amygdala sprouts a profusion of connections to higher brain regions—neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to override the products of the logical, thoughtful cortex, but not vice versa “
Suspense is a product of fear. So the same way brain allows suspense to override the logical thinking. This is a instinct which we all posses to survive from the dangers we face.
Bruce Schneier in his blog talks about the higher level dangers that we face in our daily life now and which are different from the natural dangers like wild animals. Our brain is programmed to evoke fight-or-flight response against natural risks. While the current day risks needs more logical analysis to evaluate the risk and the brain may try to override this if met with a less risky natural scenario. Bruce Schneier is trying to prove his point “ This behavior of human brain makes it difficult for people to understand the security risks involved in Internet transactions”
posted by Chathan @ 9:48 PM
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