Is the brain the generator of emotions or the responder to emotions?
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when people say they feel disoriented or panicky during their experiences is it the brain generating emotions or is it the brain responding to emotions see the brain is actually the channel for emotions it is neither the generator nor is it the responder it is the channel it’s like say when we laugh when we laugh now are the facial muscles the generator of the laughter or are they the responder to laughter they are neither they are simply the expression internally we feel happy and when we feel happy at that time there is a physical expression of that in terms of laughter the same way deep within us at our core we experience some emotions and those emotions they manifest at the level of the brain in terms of certain areas of the brain being activated certain areas of the brain certain chemicals being secreted in the brain so now your question is I don’t want to get into semantics over here I understand your question your question is basically the emotions that we are experiencing your focus is on the brain whether it is generation or the response that was your question if I understand right so the point is that in many times when we have certain experiences the two generation and response can both go very rapidly together so for example if I am driving in a car and I suddenly feel as if somebody is right in front of me I am going to hit them so at that time I press the brake so at one level the pressing of the brake is the response to my seeing somebody but just the whole activity of pressing the brake can also cause my adrenaline to shoot up what is going to happen so emotions can be sometimes generated by certain stimuli or sometimes they can be our response which occurs after we see the stimuli and we start acting on it so in the case of near death experiences generally speaking the subjects see the traumatized body but still they themselves feel peaceful and to a large extent that peace is because of the disconnection from the body the body is going through a lot of physical issues and that’s why there is pain, there is sense of limitation but when the person is freed from the body there is a sense of freedom from it the primary cause of that is just the disconnection from the body and along with that whatever emotions are there they are a response to seeing so see why is my hair cut like this or whatever but there is a basic feeling of relief and after the basic feeling of relief there can be a response to specific stimuli and specific emotions which may be generated as a response