@Crazed Shotgun Passages from the Bible are often reinterpreted to fit today's events; however, that means reading things into the text that were not written there.

Even the Old Testament verses about Immanuel that were taken to be about Jesus were about someone entirely different. People take pieces of what was written and bend them to fit whatever they want.

I tend to see intelligence as more important, I think, than most people do. Sometimes I wonder whether I overvalue it.

Others tell me IQ is not very important, and I agree if what they mean is that working hard and having integrity are far more important, but acting intelligently is also very important to me.

True.

And most of the time, people don't attain higher IQs by trying harder or 'working out' their brains, so we can't fault people for having lower IQs than others.

EQ, I think, is highly important also.

So I agree with you, laurentia.

Nice to meet you, Rayn. I am studying physics.

Love serves the purpose of furthering the race, not only through procreation, but by protectiveness, altruism, et cetera. That's an example of a purpose for an emotion.

How do you know snakes don't love?

One may not absolutely need love to reproduce or survive, but I think it definitely helps the species.

I feel like most of religion is built on emotion.

Rayn, do you think that emotions started with things like single-celled organisms being attracted to food and helpful things and repelled by dangerous substances and organisms?

Emotions and sensations seem like essentially the same thing to me.

Emotions seem like sensations based on brain signals, rather than directly on sensory input.

No, not at all. I can look it up though.

Ooh, duh. Yes, entropy. I am familiar.

sorry, brain fart

Microstates

I agree that emotions are far more abstract than anything a single-celled organism experiences, but I tend to think they are basically super-complex versions of sensations, involving far more neurons.

I would love to know more about the math behind life.

😄

I love the math behind physics, and any science has elegant math that can blow the mind.

Cortisol and adrenaline affect neurons, no? Else they would be less relevant to emotions, right?

You are citing neurotransmitters.

Right. Neurotransmitters, which are certain types of hormones, right?

Like adrenaline and testosterone

Okay, so noradrenaline and norepinephrine, for example, are neurotransmitters, while adrenaline refers to the hormone. I just looked it up. Is this right?

Adrenaline-epinephrine

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Oh, noradrenaline IS norepinephrine, isn't it?

Yes, I knew where the adrenal glands were.

So for something to be a neurotransmitter, it has to be produced in the brain?

Okay

So how is the neurotransmitter noradrenaline related (if it is) to adrenaline?

Right.

When I'm anxious, my thoughts race too.

A mental response to a physical effect?

Just like when I'm dreaming, if I feel physically a certain way, I dream something that fits that feeling.

No?

Sure.

what I was trying to describe was that when we feel a certain way physically, the brain seems to attach a thought or emotion to it. I agree that there are times when we experience perception that is not connected to a sensation, but would you not agree that there are also times when certain perceptions are connected to sensations?

If I am hungry in my sleep, I dream I am eating.

Or looking for food.

Yes. 😄

I didn't say brains had sensations; I said they respond to sensations.

Yes, they can.

I realize that.

I am not arguing that the brain cannot model things without sensory input. I am asking whether you agree that brains can either do that or respond to sensory input with thoughts and/or emotions.

I am sure you agree.

Okay, that's all I was asking.