Why heart is made related to all mental reactions like love hate anger etc though simply it is a pump ?

Question

Heart is nothing but a mechanical pump actuated by eletrical pulses to oxygenate and circulate blood to different parts of a living body. It is actually an electro-mechanical device to do specific scheduled purposes to keep a creature alive and active. It functions under different mental conditions of emotions generated by one's external or inner(mental) circumstances. It works on mental reactions. When one faces a danger the mental state sends the message to brain and he runs. The heart follows the order of brain & pumps more blood to enable him spend extra energy for running. "A good-hearted or a hard-hearted person" is a statement of his mental standard and not of his cardiac condition. When I love somebody it is a matter of mind and cannot be a matter of heart.
THEN WHY & HOW ALL MATTERS RELATED TO MIND ARE SYMBOLISED BY HEART ? ! ? ! ? !

Answer 1

The heart is central to life
and the human as a species is centered around the emotional
flow within their existence--therefore the analogy is only normal to relate the two......
(for instance -- the saying-- getting to the heart of a matter---a matter actually doesn't have a heart-- but-- it is instantly understood what is being said when this phrase is used )

So--in simplified form--to answer your question-- it is simply an analogy that is used and commonly accepted because it relates two extremely important human functions to better describe the complexities of the latter (the emotional plane)........

Answer 2

You're confusing two different concepts of "heart". The physical heart is not quite the same heart people talk about when they say "I love you with all my heart". I speak Indonesian, and the Indonesian for that expression would literally mean in English "I love you with all my liver." As the first answerer to this question indicated, English speakers choose the heart to represent the organ that bears the human emotions, while Indonesians choose the liver, and other languages may choose other organs.

Maybe the reason why it's "heart" in English is because the way your heart works is affected by your emotions. When you're tense, angry, nervous, or in love, your heartbeat increases. It's one of the most obvious body reactions. As for the Indonesian version, while I don't remember having a teacher explain it to me while I grew up, I guess it's "liver" because the liver produces bile, which represents what sits in your gut--the inner depths of you.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It is the mind/brain that really brings all these feelings. Without the correct functioning to the central nervous system stimuli could not be recognised and emotions will not be felt by the heart,

Answer 5

Here's a good place to begin your quest for information:

"A Perverse History of the Human Heart"
Milad Doueihi

The seat of the soul, the center of legends, the pulsing middle of cults and cultural taboos: the heart has a history as long and complex, and often as sordid, as that of the secret life it once signified. And this is the history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart through custom, legend, religion, and literature from antiquity to early modern times.

Most prominent, and macabre, in this history is the account of the eaten heart, beginning with the myth of Dionysos, who was kidnapped and devoured by the Titans. Doueihi shows us, from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century, strange tales combining a cuisine of the macabre with the devotion of the lover, in which a jealous husband serves his unwitting wife the heart of her murdered lover. Beyond the tensions of courtly love, manifest in the Lai d'Ignaure, the Roman du Chatelain du Coucy, and works by Dante and Boccaccio, Doueihi evokes the image of the devoured heart invoked in Francis Bacon's Essay on Friendship.

Not to be outdone by literature and legend, religion, particularly in the theology of the Sacred Heart, takes its place in this story, exerting its influence on the legend of the eaten heart, with stories of perverse consumption coming to be explained in terms of the mystery of the Eucharist, the magical and mystical consumption of the body of Christ. Finally, with the discovery of physiology and the emerging science of blood circulation, the heart loses its symbolic place--though Doueihi leaves us with the possible marriage of mysticism and science that Pascal's descriptions of intuitive intelligence open up for the heart.

PUBLISHED BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Answer 6

The heart is the seat of the emotions in western civilization. In other countries, it's the kidneys or liver. So some people might say, "I love you with both my kidneys." or "Hey, baby, you make my liver quiver!" lol

Answer 7

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