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Toxoplasma Fear Hijack

Toxoplasma gondii alters rodent aversion to feline odour—an attractor hijack inside affective wiring. Valence that once priced survival is redirected toward predation risk. The specimen shows that affective witness can be parasitically rewritten: the body’s accounting continues, but the gradient it reports no longer tracks the host’s interest. Failure is not absence of feeling but mispriced fear.