system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Waterboarding; If no water actually goes through the cloth, how come people experience drowning and how it leads to asphyxiation? Why can't a person simply KNOW that the water won't go through and breathe normally?
gpt
The sense of drowning is a reflexive one, you cannot control it.


Knowing does very little. Knowing you are going to get tickled doesn't mean the tickling won't work. Knowing somebody is going to put something down your throat doesn't negate the gag reflex.