Ierrellus wrote:HCP is the new phrenology; and phrenology has been largely disproved.
Wow!! The above is one of the worst rhetoric against HCP which is genuine Science. Don't insult your own intelligence.
If you do a search re Human Connectome Project - Scholarly Articles, you get 14,400 results.
Note the Human Connectome Project is done along the same approach as the Human Genome Project which is already completed.
I would ask if there is any other place in the brain other than in the amygdala where anxiety can be expressed?
Other than chemicals, note the parts of the brain [bolded] that contribute to anxiety.
The Neurobiology of Anxiety Disorders: Brain Imaging, Genetics, and PsychoneuroendocrinologyMood and anxiety disorders are characterized by a variety of neuroendocrine, neurotransmitter, and neuroanatomical disruptions.
Identifying the most functionally relevant differences is complicated by the high degree of interconnectivity between neurotransmitter- and neuropeptide-containing circuits in
limbic,
brain stem, and
higher cortical brain areas.
Furthermore, a primary alteration in brain structure or function or in neurotransmitter signaling may result from environmental experiences and underlying genetic predisposition; such alterations can increase the risk for psychopathology.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684250/
Anxiety in the brain generally indicates something is physically wrong, It does not indicate some free floating disposition that affects everyone negatively. It is more like an impetus to adapt and to survive, which is the brain's job of tending to homeostasis. Anxiety is a prod for survival behavior. There are some who do "go gently into that good night" without experiencing the horror of death-imposed religious anxiety. Fear of death and of what may become of the I after death is a type of cowardice.
You got it wrong.
Anxiety is related to the physical and mental but ultimately anxiety is triggered consciously or
subconsciously if there is a threat of death, premature and otherwise, i.e. to ensure survival.
Fear of death and of what may become of the I after death is a type of cowardice.
Note I have stated before, the fear of death is generally suppressed in normal people to ensure people are not paralyzed by such fears so they can go about in their daily life.
But the suppression is not 100% and it caused seepage within the subconscious mind that manifest the death anxiety which compel the majority into religions. The fact is >90% of 'normal' humans are religious.
Many of these religions are driven by the fear of what may become of the I after physical death - you call them cowards?? They are 'normal' people.
"Thou art that" is a Sanskrit saying. After death you will become an intimate part of matter in its dance with energy. In fact you already are that now in life.
True whatever is the physical body [molecules, atoms, etc] and waves generated will dissipate and spread all over the Universe.
But note there are loads of counter views to the above, i.e. there is no real self 'the you or I' to start with that become part of the universe.
The idea of an absolute "I" or "I AM" [
Descartes' sum] is an illusion and an impossibility.
The
present thinking of the idea of "I" or "I AM" and the insistence it survives somewhat after physical death in the unknown future is purely psychological.
Note there is a serious conflation here when you in your present state is fearing what will happen in the future which is unknown and speculated without grounds.
I am a progressive human being, a World Citizen, NOT-a-theist and not religious.
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... Okay, but you should understand that such criticisms from you, due to the general rejections of your speculative claims, are conversely compliments, because it means that I haven't followed you into what I perceive as a rabbit hole.