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"When not overseeing (and often disrupting) the fundamental processes we need to keep ourselves alive, our conscious brains are exceptionally good at thinking up ways in which we might come to harm. And it doesn’t even have to be physical harm; it can be intangible things such as embarrassment or sadness, things that are physically harmless but that we still really want to avoid"