🧠As Renyke confronts his growing awareness of mortality, the journey to “the edge” becomes more than a route—it becomes a reckoning. Exploring the human fear of death, slavery, and the unknown, this chapter asks: what does it mean to risk everything when you were built to feel nothing? Welcome to Immersion, You have reached strata 14 The Journey to the Edge (Fear of Death) Fear is the result of perceived danger or threat. It is peculiar to sentient beings, including humans and animals. Fear is an intensely unpleasant emotion. Fear can be felt so deeply by humans that it has catastrophic physical and emotional effects. The human brain decides in milliseconds to defend, attack or flee at the point of fear. Long-term fear has slower responses but is not necessarily well-measured, as assessing true risk is extremely subjective. Humans feel fear differently depending on age, upbringing, social conditions, and external manipulations such as propaganda and education. S...
