When I told my doctor about my oldest having a reaction to a chocolate bar with peanuts, one of his first questions was "did he react before he knew it had peanuts?"
replyHe's pretty anxious about food in general, so it actually made a lot of sense.
I'm not sure it's fair to describe that fear response as "not logical."
replyIt's not logically thought out, emotion is a parallel decision making process to logical thought. It may be that in some circumstances, fear is a logical outcome of a stimulus, but that's not the same thing.
reply> emotion is a parallel decision making process to logical thought.
replyNo it's not. We know for a fact this is not true.
Here's an interesting story (but you can also find ample published literature on it, or even just like... think about how brains work): https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/reasonably-emotional
Yeah, if I almost died from something I imagine I would have the same response.
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