No other kind of fear is bigger than the fear of the unknown. From the beginning of time, fear is driving any living being to adapt and survive. This also applies to humans who gain consciousness. The consciousness also enabled us to adapt even further to understand more and more information about the universe. But is it enough?
When we know the risk of something, we will prepare something to mitigate the risks we face ahead. This could be done either by making a plan or unconsciously reacted to the information we’ve known beforehand. But when we faced something outside our range of knowledge, we tend to freeze up. Because when our brain is flooded with new information, it tends to focus on processing this information rather than reacting to the presented information.
Information is the most valuable thing to humans. It’s so valuable we have our own desire to process this information into meaningful ones, something that we can truly understand. Yet, it also fears us. Too much information absorbed, processed, and calculated at once will make our brain disregarding other things we need most at that moment, including breathing. If that happened, death is inevitable.
There is no easy way to understand the new information we just have. Some people can understand and react quicker than others. But other parameters are also in play, not limited to age, education level, physical activities, demographics, and so on. The extend of these parameters we too also don’t know. This is also the fact that we also don’t know how far each of us can think and process the very same information. So unique, no one has an equal brain to each other.