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The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

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Re: The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

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Take this a step further and consider vaccine mandates. However flawed or not the antivaxxer's reasoning, imagine the stress of having to choose between yours and your children's livelihood or being forced to inject a substance you consider risky into yours or your child's body.

The bulk of that fear comes from ignorance about how vaccines work, and there's enough reputable sources to get educated for free, learn how they have worked in the past, and make an informed decision. It's more stressful to be sick two weeks and struggling to breathe because you got COVID, and I'm saying that as an asthmatic who is not scared of mild difficulty to breathe. There is no sensible posture to rationalize…

Lol

Re: The brain can recall and reawaken past immune responses

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Do we know this is true? Could the loop back also be an illusion? From a cursory glance it seems like "free will" is massively exaggerated. However, the belief of free will seems to be healthy.

Please elaborate on why you think free will is exaggerated and how it could be healthy. I'm really interested in this being a meditator.

free will is very inefficient in a power/performance sense: most decisions are made by your subconsciousness and your free will rational self will just accept the outcome if it is barely plausible. you have to focus to even be aware that it's happening.

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> after addressing my perspective Could you please elaborate on that?

(don't want to put words in GP's mouth, this is my interpretation of it, and my experience) I do skateboarding and had multiple ankle sprains. What happens every single time is that the wound heals, physiotherapy proceeds and strengthens the whole joint system, and then I'm left with an ankle that is still in pain when it should not physically be anymore since it has fully recovered. That is, until I literally "decid…

Wow. I’ve struggled with and babied my left ankle for decades now ever since breaking it three time in three years.

Gonna give that a try as there isn’t anything that shows up on scans etc

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