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When We Talk About Emotion, We Really Talk About A Collection Of Behaviors That Are Produced By The Brain. You Can Look At A Person In The Throes Of An Emotion And Observe Changes In The Face, In The Body Posture, In The Coloration Of The Skin And So On.

If You Have Just An Emotion, You Would Not Necessarily Feel It. To Feel An Emotion, You Need To Represent In The Brain In Structures That Are Actually Different From The Structures That Lead To The Emotion, What Is Going On In The Organs When You're Having The Emotion.

I Got Interested In The Emotions After Studying Patients Who Had Lost The Ability To Emote And Feel Under Certain Circumstances. Many Of Those Patients Also Had Major Impairments In Their Ability To Make Decisions.

Emotion Operates, Very Often When You Think About How You React To The World, You Know, Something Is Happening To You, You're Simply Going Along And You're Being Confronted By Different Things, Not Necessarily Very Important Or Significance For Your Ultimate Life, But You Are Constantly Reacting To The World.

Some Of Us, For Better Or Worse, Develop Very Stable, Consistent, And Largely Predictable Machineries Of Self. But In Others, The Self Machinery Is More Flexible And More Open To Unexpected Turns.