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I read a while ago a very elegant paper from uh Walter Canon uh so you may want to expand on uh who Walter Canon was but uh one of the uh found figures of the study of physiology yeah autonomic phy physiology right chair of physiology at Harvard 1920s 1930s author of the wisdom of the body you know uh he has a paper or he published a paper I believe in the 1930s it's called voodo death
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he essentially the gist of it let me see if I can uh if I can do a little bit of justice but obviously I will chop most of the details but um the um the gist of the paper is that in some observations in some native tries I I believe it was in in Africa that if a young people especially young youngsters uh if they were uh frightened by a shaman that they will not perform a certain thing a certain task right uh they enter a level of psychosis so to speak that could cause death like the cast an spell right um and uh that's why called Buu death
what Canon goes and describes is there is an activation of uh the vus nerve and the peripheral nervous system that is a hyperactivation that is going through the subal level of Consciousness and that in some of these tribes uh that's what at least that's what he explains that is happening