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Comment by digi_owl

10 years ago

Brings to mind the claim that we have X hours of focused mental effort we can spend each day. Go beyond that and we start dropping back to fight or flight instincts etc.

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Noseshine  10 years ago

However, I don't think that is actually a real theory in neuroscience, it's more a made-up everyday rule. I doubt it is valid, except in the most general kind of way.

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