What did Katie compare emotions/feelings to?
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EMOTIONAL
Emotions are common to all vertebrate animals: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. All experience the physiological changes of emotion- hormone rushes, heart rate changes, muscle activation- to one degree or another. What is distinctly human is what happens as the sensations of an emotion occur. Unlike other animals, the human minds labels an emotion with a name and interprets it. If a person’s heart rate speeds up before a meeting for example, the sensations are soon given a label like “anxiety,” the anxiety is fit into a story, and that story is interpreted within a culture, where its value is either promoted or rejected.
FEELING
In everyday language we often use the terms interchangeably. This shows how closely connected emotions are with feelings. But for neuroscience, emotions are more or less the complex reactions the body has to certain stimuli. When we are afraid of something, our hearts begin to race, our mouths become dry, our skin turns pale and our muscles contract. This emotional reaction occurs automatically and unconsciously. Feelings occur after we become aware in our brain of such physical changes; only then do we experience the feeling of fear.” -Antonio