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Acute Stress Response - More Commonly Known as Fight or Flight

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We've all heard of Fight or Flight, right?

Have you ever wondered about the biological process?

 Perhaps, how it can directly affect your perception of the world around you?

Feel free to investigate the link below for fun, accessible answers to these questions and more!


Acute stress response - Prezi

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  1. AnonymousDecember 13, 2014 at 11:06 AM

    My apologies I couldn't figure out how to make a new post instead of commenting on this one. So I am adding my post as a comment to this post.

    My presentation was on perception and consciousness. It was based off of a podcast created by Stanford Professor Robert Harrison in April of 2011. http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/ ( Stuart Edelstein on the Human Brain). At the core of the presentation was the idea of the hard problem of consciousness and the easy problem of consciousness. In the pdf is an over view of the theories of the hard problem of consciousness, then the presentation goes into what it would mean to be conscious if we didn't have to deal with the hard problem at all.

    Assuming there was no hard problem of consciousness and that we only had to deal with the easy problem of consciousness the question then becomes, "if we know how our brain works on a functional level does that change the way in which we would think about thinking?" Then there is an explanation on how we may try to understand the functional way our brain works.

    Below is a link to the presentation as a whole.

    http://speedy.sh/d2EXw/Consciousness-Perception.pdf

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    1. AnonymousDecember 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM

      This post was done by G. Max Gudmundson

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