Who is to blame for your negative emotions? You!

[Caligastia]

Re: Re: Who is to blame for your negative emotions? You!

Originally posted by Richelieu



I think it's the other way around.
Your body takes on different physical states depending on your emotional state. The emotional state dictates what the brain tells your body to do.
The brain does not tell the body to create an emotional state : the emotional state causes the body to respond.

Emotions are not felt in the brain, they are felt in the body. Your brain interprets outside stimuli.

[Urban Ranger]

I reckon not all emotions have physiological roots. For example, hate, grudge, jealousy, etc.

[chequita guevara]

True, but you will have been trained by your life experience on how to interpret stimuli. If someone were to call my SO a n***** b****, I wouldn't have time to stop, analyze the phrase, and see how I felt about it. I'd be kicking their ass. Afterwards I might "think about how that made me feel."

[Richelieu]

Re: Re: Re: Who is to blame for your negative emotions? You!

Originally posted by Caligastia


Emotions are not felt in the brain, they are felt in the body. Your brain interprets outside stimuli.

Emotions result from stimuli : a good song, a smell, the sight of a corpse.
But by itself, each of these is only a bunch of information. The brain assigns a value to that information. Then the emotional state occurs. And the brains sends the corresponding orders to the body : produce adrenalin, relax, puke etc...

[Mercator]

Emotions are not felt in the brain, they are felt in the body. Your brain interprets outside stimuli.

Sure... Your brain doesn't hurt when you are kicked in the nuts, but your brain does interpret the incoming signals and sends signals back to the body in reaction.
It's exactly the same with other emotions. Most of the processing and interpreting of incoming "data" happens in the brain, unconsciously.

[Dis]

If that's the case we need to get rid of censorship.


If I call someone a ********er and they get offended, that is their fault.

[Dis]

hey that wasn't censored for some reason. but I used cockroach earlier and that was censored. weird

[Caligastia]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Who is to blame for your negative emotions? You!

Originally posted by Richelieu


Emotions result from stimuli : a good song, a smell, the sight of a corpse.
But by itself, each of these is only a bunch of information. The brain assigns a value to that information. Then the emotional state occurs...

...in the body


We almost completely agree.

[Richelieu]

How do you pronounce Tomato ?

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Richelieu
How do you pronounce Tomato ?

tomato.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Caligastia


tomato.

Capital "T"

[TCO]

"Don't get mad. Get even!"

[devilmunchkin]

the second someone mentions the crock that is karma i reserve the right to shoot them and blame it on the fact that they wronged me in another life.
cali: i think it's a combo of your environment and your innate reaction to things caused by genes. if you loose your job, of course you're gonna feel bad! if your mom gets mugged, of course you're gonna get pissed. and then there's the chemical instabilities that reside in the brains of people with chronic depression. now physically they DO cause this distubance..but not consciously.
sometimes though, there just isn't anyone to blame. **** happens.

[Caligastia]

I guess I shouldnt have put the word "blame" in the title, but I wanted it to be eye-catching.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Caligastia


I agree, but I needed a provocative thread title didnt I?

You little troll you