Fight or Flight: Are YOU Really in Control? 🤔 #philosophy #shorts
March 21, 2025Video Details
- Style
- Cinematic
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Voice
- Gregory
- Language
- English
Creative Input
Prompt
The human mind when in fight or flight
Script
Imagine a sudden threat. Our minds instantly shift into fight or flight. But what *is* happening philosophically? Are we truly free when instinct takes over? Are our choices *ours*? Descartes believed in mind-body dualism, suggesting reason could override instinct. But Hume argued reason is a slave to the passions. Fight or flight seems to validate Hume. We're driven by primal urges, not logic. Is our sense of self then, just a passenger? Perhaps fight or flight reveals our *true* self, stripped of societal conditioning. As Nietzsche might say, it's the will to power manifesting, a raw assertion of existence. While scary, it's undeniably authentic. The question isn't whether it's philosophical, but how it shapes our understanding of human nature itself.