{"id":153,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:06:03","slug":"emotions-brain-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"EMOTIONS AS BRAIN IMAGES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Emotions: brain images of bodily states?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Neuroscience states that light reflected from objects activates our retinal receptors in patterns. These patterns are processed as 3D <a href=\"?p=210\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">visual images of those objects<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Patterns in the external world correspond with patterns of nerve cell activity in the brain. We experience these patterns as thoughts and images.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=491\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Our senses<\/span><\/a> of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell function as patterns of nerve activity that only represent the state of our external environment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Emotions are patterns of nerve activity that only represent: state of the internal milieu. When feeling fear, all neural and hormonal feedback from our body is recorded by our brains as patterns of nerve cell activity. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These neural patterns are like &#8216;markings&#8217; of &#8216;images or sensations&#8217; from the body, in Gr:&#8217;soma&#8217;, and can thus be called <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>&#8216;somatic markers&#8217;<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"?p=154\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"width: 202px; height: 186px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/octopus_spin.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotions: brain images of bodily states? Neuroscience states that light reflected from objects activates our retinal receptors in patterns. These patterns are processed as 3D visual images of those objects. Patterns in the external world correspond with patterns of nerve cell activity in the brain. We experience these patterns as thoughts and images. 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