{"id":236,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T10:39:41","slug":"sm-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Are Somatic Markers  My Emotions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Somatic markers<\/span> are not primary emotions, but secondary emotions that are filtered through your beliefs, judgments, fears, and opinions. These markers connect to a possible future outcome, based on memories of past experiences. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Thus they influence thoughts, sensations, and behavior in a covert manner. A negative somatic marker projected onto a possible future outcome, functions as an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><em>alarm bell<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. A positive marker functions as an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><em>incentive<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This elaborate system of neural circuits is programmed to function as &#8216;<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><em>pain avoider<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8216; and &#8216;<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">pleasure seeker<\/span><\/em><\/strong>&#8216;. It is based on data from your working memory and attention paid to the sensations these circuits sent to your body, like an itch or pain signal. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain can thus be viewed as a center which collects feedback on bodily states, and instructs nerve cell circuits to fire when balance needs to be restored.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This clarifies the role and nature of emotions, and allows them to be studied with standard brain scanning devices.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 280px; height: 201px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Axons-&amp;-Synapses.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><a href=\"?p=237\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somatic markers are not primary emotions, but secondary emotions that are filtered through your beliefs, judgments, fears, and opinions. These markers connect to a possible future outcome, based on memories of past experiences. Thus they influence thoughts, sensations, and behavior in a covert manner. 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