Where Are Your Emotions Kept?
Question by BJ&Co™: Where are your emotions kept?
some say the heart.
but at the end of the day it’s just a muscle.
it’s like saying the muscle in my thigh holds emotions!
ha
anyway
yeah
where are they kept?
the brain? 🙂
Best answer:
Answer by ioerr
Parts of the brain are involved. Not necessarily the most highly evolved parts.
Emotions are a more primal form of control than intelligence. They’ve been around longer. But they serve much the same purpose: They control your behavior, to enhance your chances of survival.
For example, if a huge lion jumps out at you, you become afraid and run away. Your emotions have helped you survive (hopefully).
As to where they’re “kept,” it’s probably best to say most if not all the body is involved with them. Your nervous system extends throughout then entire body, and a lot of low level processing (emotions are a low level phenomenon) goes on in the periphery of the system, without necessarily involving the brain itself at all. Your guts are heavily wired in particular. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the “heart,” the “spleen,” the “liver,” the guts in general are often evoked to explain various emotional issues. All these organs, or at least perhaps the neural networks connecting them all, are probably involved.
Hormones are probably heavily involved as well, and the glands that make them. Your body has many glands, some of which make things are clearly involved with emotions. Adrenaline for example. The glands themselves are wired into the nervous system as well of course.
The glandular system and the nervous system likely affect each other, opening the possibility for feedback loops and so on.
It’s probably a “whole body” system, with various parts interacting, negating or reinforcing each other to produce the overall effect.
By the way, just because I call emotions “primal,” or maybe “less evolved” than intelligence, doesn’t mean I think they’re less important. Nature doesn’t throw things away if they’re useful.
Emotions may not be such a fine, discerning tool of control as intelligence, but emotions are quick. Thinking requires a little time, a bit of reflection. If you had to think about what to do when the lion jumped at you, you probably wouldn’t get away.
You might not get away anyway, but having the ability to instantly go into a full fledged, adrenaline fueled panic, voiding your bowels, screaming like the devil on crystal meth, hoofing your way to nearest tree forthwith, will probably give you about as much of a chance as you’re likely to get in that situation.
And if you survive you may pass your valuable cowardice onto your children.
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