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Thank you for writing up your thoughts, Qiaochu!
I feel the need to offer one very minor correction:
It's actually sympathetic dominance over the parasympathetic side that does this. Both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems are running all the time, and that's really quite essential. You cannot stand up without the sympathetic system, for instance, nor can you lie down without going into a panic without the parasympathetic side doing its job.
But as long as you replace "activity" with "dominance," I think we're good!
Thanks! Corrected.
I think you may now have the definitions mixed up. It looks like you're saying the parasympathetic system governs fight or flight, when it's the sympathetic system that runs fight or flight.
The phrase is "sympathetic nervous system dominance over the parasympathetic nervous system."
In its current form,
I couldn't figure out what the sentence was trying to say either.
Would it still be correct to say, "For example, dominance of the sympathetic nervous system (which governs the fight-or-flight response) over the parasympathetic, is unpleasant, ..."?
That's probably less confusing. Thanks! Edited.