Emotion Definition and 22 Threads

<moderator moved to General Discussion> What is the simplest organism with emotion? Can it occur without any nervous system?

Can your brain feel emotion like anger without feedback from the body? When you feel anger.. your stomach tighten and there is a lot of other body sensation.

I just learned that "action potential is a short-lasting event" (wiki) If someone is experiencing an emotion of sadness, is that same action potential keeps firing many times back to back or can it actually be a possibility that an action potential lasts for a "very long time". I am guessing...

My group was the last one finishing the lab report for today's physics lab. The instructor asked why I didn't try more data point after I turned in the report. (The manual doesn't require a specific number of data point) I said I didn't really have enough time. He responded sarcastically, "Do...

So... this may not be the right forum... but I figured biology was pretty close. While we have built a very strong correlation between let's say dopamine and happiness (not sure if that's right), I was wondering if anyone knows of research that looks at correlations between matter and emotions...

Why music causes emotions in our mind? They are just sound waves interpreted by our brain? But what causes it to trigger emotions? Do scientists have an answer for this yet?

The Frontal Lobe controls Emotion / Personality / Decision Making. But if you look up Temporal Lobe it says this handles Emotion. Can you tell me what I am not getting?

I believe that emotions are confusing, illogical and unnecessary. I want to rid myself of all of them, fear, hate, love, happiness. How do I do so? I want to become a completely logical being. Note that I am not asking to remove myself of intuition for intuition is a valuable tool.

Hi everyone :) I have been exploring this forum as a guest and just created my account I just want to talk about a situation I encountered at school today. My physics teacher is a quite nice guy and really tries to make our class fun. One day, we got into a discussion about appropriate...

| --- willpower --- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | ------ motivation ------- \\\\\\\\ | ------------ emotion ----------- \ Let's imagine the picture above is a house with 3 floors. First is emotion, second motivation and third willpower. The house has a roof and basement too, which are empty. The...

Consciousness has been generally defined as the awareness of one’s self and its surroundings. But as shown from an expert of A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine Consciousness can be defined as something more than just “awareness” “Consciousness is not merely a by-product of...

Say a week, month, or year of undergoing consistent tasks, during this time, every morning when you wake up you kind of forget who you are. You start to hate everything about your hobby/career path. If it's a hobby, you simply quit. For an education, it's not that simple... but if you quit...

In the future, if mankind engineered a device that could voluntarily be used to control and manipulate our emotions for the better, should we use them?

Is pain just an emotion? I understand that pain is brought about by such things like nerve endings sending signals to the brain in an effort to notify us of danger, much like the hand on the oven burner. Hey… it’s hot, might want to move your hand away from the fire. But the brain confuses...

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Thanks:smile: Is there a term used to describe a phenomena in which emotion is bended or distorted into pieces ? For example, a sad feeling may lead to some acts involved and conducted orderedly; and if such a sequence of acts are carried out in an unexpected order (and this order is supposed...

Sometimes, people can be singing pretty good, but they don't have any emotion in the song. and sometimes, people sing pretty pathetic, but they got so much emotion in it, that we still like it. I was wondering, what is emotion in singing technically? Am I being clear?

Is there currently any way by injecting chemicals/hormones into the body to induce a specific emotion into a person such as hate, anger, guilt, etc.

would you all agree that most of our love and hatred stems from the little emotion of expectancy. i mean would we all really be fighting and loving, killing and giving birth if it weren't for expectancy. would you get mad at someone if you didnt expect any particular outcome, would you love...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1263470.htm

what do you think is the strongest human emotion? post another if I've left something important out.

Firstly, this belongs in General Philosophy because it deals with more than the nature of consciousness. Now, we can all agree that we are aware of being conscious and that we FEEL emotions- they don't simply affect our behavior and psychology, but we FEEL them uniquely- this is...