We Are Not Thinking Machines That Feel;

The Emotion Is The Execution Of A Very Complex Program Of Actions. Some Actions That Are Actually Movements, Like Movement That You Can Do, Change Your Face For Example, In Fear, Or Movements That Are Internal, That Happen In Your Heart Or In Your Gut, And Movements That Are Actually Not Muscular Movements, But Rather, Releases Of Molecules.

Of Necessity, The Autobiographical Self Is Not Just About One Individual But About All The Others That An Individual Interacts With. Of Necessity, It Incorporates The Culture In Which The Interactions Took Place.

When You Deal With Something Like Compassion For Physical Pain, Which We Know Is Very, Very Old In Evolution - We Can Find Evidence For It In Nonhuman Species - The Brain Processes It At A Faster Speed. Compassion For Mental Pain Took Many Seconds Longer.

Writing Long Hand Is The Last Refuge. One Needs The Time It Takes To Put Pencil To Paper And Let It Run Along The Ruled Line.

When We Talk About Emotion, We Really Talk About A Collection Of Behaviors That Are Produced By The Brain. You Can Look At A Person In The Throes Of An Emotion And Observe Changes In The Face, In The Body Posture, In The Coloration Of The Skin And So On.