Entry 6 - Found Article

In the article titled, "Your Brain "Shields" Itself from the Existential Threat of Death," it claims to research the manifestation of why our brain cannot conjure the idea of "complete annihilation" for ourselves.

Yasemin Saplakoglu states,

"It's also true that everyone who ever lives will die, so it would make sense that your brain should be able to "predict" that you, too, will die someday.

But it doesn't seem to work that way."

Read more at: Live Science

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