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So, You Can Define Emotions Very Simply As The Process Of Perceiving What Is Going On In The Organs When You Are In The Throws Of An Emotion, And That Is Achieved By A Collection Of Structures, Some Of Which Are In The Brain Stem, And Some Of Which Are In The Cerebral Cortex, Namely The Insular Cortex, Which I Like To Mention Not Because I Think It's The Most Important, It's Not.

I Continue To Be Fascinated By The Fact That Feelings Are Not Just The Shady Side Of Reason But That They Help Us To Reach Decisions As Well.

The Mechanism Of Primary Emotions Does Not Describe The Full Range Of Emotional Behaviors. They Are, To Be Sure, The Basic Mechanism. However, I Believe That In Terms Of An Individual's Development They Are Followed By Mechanisms Of Secondary Emotions, Which Occur Once We Begin Experiencing Feelings And Forming Systematic Connections Between Categories Of Objects And Situations, On The One Hand, And Primary Emotions, On The Other.

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.

If I Use The Word Consciousness, In Our Lab, In Our Institute, What We Mean Is The Special Quality Of Mind, The Special Features That Exist In The Mind, That Permit Us To Know, For Example, That We, Ourselves, Exist, And That Things Exist Around Us.