{"id":219,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:24:38","slug":"emotions-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Emotions Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>PART V<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Dr. Antonio\u00a0Dam\u00e1sio, a neuroscientist and clinician at UCLA, has published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Descartes-Error-Emotion-Reason-Human\/dp\/014303622X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1289603268&amp;sr=1-1\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">a few books<\/span><\/a> on his team\u2019s &#8220;body to brain&#8221; feedback research on people with brain damage. these decades of experiences have led him to conclude that: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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;\">Our senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell function as patterns of nerve activity that <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><em><strong>only represent<\/strong><\/em> the state of our external environment<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Emotions are patterns of nerve activity that <\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong><em>represent<\/em> <\/strong>the state of the internal milieu<\/span>. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">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\u00a0patterns are like &#8216;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">markings<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8216; of &#8216;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">images or sensations<\/span><\/strong><\/em>&#8216; from the body (Gr.\u00a0&#8216;soma&#8217;).\u00a0Dam\u00e1sio named them therefore<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px; color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>&#8216;Somatic Markers&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 236px; height: 217px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/octopus_spin.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=236\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more\u00a0&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART V Dr. Antonio\u00a0Dam\u00e1sio, a neuroscientist and clinician at UCLA, has published a few books on his team\u2019s &#8220;body to brain&#8221; feedback research on people with brain damage. these decades of experiences have led him to conclude that: Patterns in the external world correspond with patterns of nerve cell activity in the brain. 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