From whence fear?

joseph ledoux is a neuroscientist at NYU known for his studies of the amygdala, thought to be the fear center of the brain. in the article being cited ledoux states “that the amygdala isn’t involved in generating fear at all. fear, he points out, is a cognitive interpretion of a situation, a subjective experience tied up in memory and other processes. the psychological phenomena that some people experience as fear may be experienced as something very different by others. research shows that the feeling of fear arises in the prefrontal cortex [active in cognition] and related brain areas.”

so we are seeing a revision in the understanding of brain function and beginning to see a connection with cognition. in my books and a number of blog posts linguistic neural codes have been discussed as they relate to memory. is it not possible that the immaterial mind interprets neural codes archived in memory and associated with “related brain areas” such as those that function in perception, attention, will, intent and the like? Such could account for fear.

Stan Lennard