mildadhd
09-17-16, 09:34 PM
In modern neurobiological terms, emotions are complex programs of actions triggered by the presence of certain stimuli, external to the body or from within the body, when such stimuli activate certain neural systems.
Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are perceptions of the emotional action programs.
The (1) triggering systems, the (2) neural systems which execute the action program, and (3) the actions whose ensemble constitutes each emotion, were selected over evolutionary time and become available to each organism of a given species early in development thanks to that organism’s genome.
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neural_basis_of_emotions
"..emotions are complex programs of actions.."
"Feelings of emotion...are perceptions of the emotional action programs."
Example, we would not perceive feelings of fear, if the genetic primary FEAR action programs originating between the PAG and the amygdala did not exist.
Thoughts?
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Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are perceptions of the emotional action programs.
The (1) triggering systems, the (2) neural systems which execute the action program, and (3) the actions whose ensemble constitutes each emotion, were selected over evolutionary time and become available to each organism of a given species early in development thanks to that organism’s genome.
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Neural_basis_of_emotions
"..emotions are complex programs of actions.."
"Feelings of emotion...are perceptions of the emotional action programs."
Example, we would not perceive feelings of fear, if the genetic primary FEAR action programs originating between the PAG and the amygdala did not exist.
Thoughts?
G