SH
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Post by SH on Nov 9, 2017 18:54:28 GMT
The somatic marker hypothesis means our emotional experience is marked in the body. We have certain experiences and we feel certain ways and that gets marked in the body. So the brain is able to put new situations together with old situations and the markers that go with them, those markers give us an intuitive sense. Before we have any cognitive sense, emotional pathways work faster than the cognitive pathways. The idea is that there can be real benefits to an organism to have this kind of marker. That is the essence of Damasio’s idea of why evolution has selected these forms of emotions leading to feelings. It allows you to coordinate situations much more effectively.
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