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> What's got energy expenditure to do with logic?

Nothing, but it has everything to do with the point immediately proceeding - evolutionary pressure.

> ...it would have to have been logically evaluated before it became subconscious.

Yes, and at that point it would no longer be logic based - it would be pattern matching. The human brain is a pattern matching machine, because historically that has offered a major advantage. For your position to be true, that such a flight mechanism is logic based, then you would have to believe that the behavior would immediately change in the event of conflicting information being presented. That doesn't happen, see confirmation bias (or any other kind of bias).

> What are you trying to say?

Exactly what I did. Your statement was illogical, but I'm starting to suspect that we might not be conversing in your native language - which would also explain it.



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