Fellow Neuro Peeps,
Hope everyone is hanging in there! Midterm week is insane, I AM REALLY ANGRY! lol jk not really, just frustrated, but the reason I used anger is because I will be talking about emotion today! So what really is emotion? My answer is, who knows! When I was younger I believed that emotions came from the heart where thinking and logic came from the brain, hence the sayings, " I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!" or ," IF I THINK ANY HARDER MY BRAIN WILL EXPLODE!". Well, I now know that emotions don't come from the heart, but I also believe emotion isn't tied to the neocortex or higher level processing. It's hard to find a satisfactory definition of emotion, part of me wants to say that emotions are pure, raw feelings that come from within (but that sort of sounds like something our favorite purple dinosaur would say). Ancient Greece would argue that emotions are the result of some foolish woman by the name of Pandora who opened a nice big box of emotion...thanks Pandora! But all jokes aside, emotions are something that have been around as long as humans have. To me, emotions are impulses that are second nature to humans, hardwired into the lower cortical regions of our brain, leading us to make snap second decisions and judgements before trying to think things through. Emotions are like the reflexes of the brain! Emotions are like m&m's, there are many different varities and colors within that variety, representative of different degrees of each different emotion. I love m&m's and I love Emotions! i'm just that kind of guy!
Tell me what ya think, leave a tone!
Hope everyone is hanging in there! Midterm week is insane, I AM REALLY ANGRY! lol jk not really, just frustrated, but the reason I used anger is because I will be talking about emotion today! So what really is emotion? My answer is, who knows! When I was younger I believed that emotions came from the heart where thinking and logic came from the brain, hence the sayings, " I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART!" or ," IF I THINK ANY HARDER MY BRAIN WILL EXPLODE!". Well, I now know that emotions don't come from the heart, but I also believe emotion isn't tied to the neocortex or higher level processing. It's hard to find a satisfactory definition of emotion, part of me wants to say that emotions are pure, raw feelings that come from within (but that sort of sounds like something our favorite purple dinosaur would say). Ancient Greece would argue that emotions are the result of some foolish woman by the name of Pandora who opened a nice big box of emotion...thanks Pandora! But all jokes aside, emotions are something that have been around as long as humans have. To me, emotions are impulses that are second nature to humans, hardwired into the lower cortical regions of our brain, leading us to make snap second decisions and judgements before trying to think things through. Emotions are like the reflexes of the brain! Emotions are like m&m's, there are many different varities and colors within that variety, representative of different degrees of each different emotion. I love m&m's and I love Emotions! i'm just that kind of guy!
Tell me what ya think, leave a tone!
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