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if this is correct do all things feel emotion???? from planets to individual atoms?

2007-11-10 20:40:20 · 10 answers · asked by Ig I 1 in Social Science Psychology

10 answers

Yes-whenever a scary film comes on, the asprin hide behind the back of the sofa.

2007-11-10 20:49:41 · answer #1 · answered by johnstonemac 6 · 2 1

Unless you consider people to be chemicals, no.

Just no.

Chemicals can cause emotions. If chemicals felt emotions what would cause emotions in chemicals? They can't have smaller chemicals inside of them, they're already molecule sized (the smallest possibly amount of an emotion causing chemical).

Before the brain emits chemicals this is caused by something, that thing is stimulus. Stimulus can be pretty much anything, from a sad memory of childhood to a simple hit of laughing gas.

It would be crazy to say that laughing gas is always happy and it just spreads this happiness to your brain. It's actually an chain reaction of molecules that interact through ionic bonding, hydrogen bonding and a lot of other things involving atomic structure.

It would also be crazy to say that a sad memory is as simple as a few chemical reactions. The electrochemical reactions that take place in the brain during memory are incredibly complex, so much so that it's futile to describe them in simple chemical terms. Scientists have to take a larger scale approach through psychology an neurology. Only recently have we developed technology to see how the brain's electrochemical pathways fire up when we remember things.

Just because something causes an effect it doesn't mean the effect is identical to the cause. A boy carelessly playing with matches may start a forest fire but the boy is not made of fire and the matches only become fire under temporary specific conditions. Chemicals and emotions are as different form eachother as boys and forest fires.

2007-11-10 20:59:44 · answer #2 · answered by sgtcosgrove 7 · 1 0

The brain doesn't emit chemicals. There are endorphins, which dull pain, but they don't necessarily make you happy. When you take certain drugs you get a rush of euphoria, caused by the drug blocking the re-uptake of the neurotransmitter(endorphins). So more endorphines mean more good feelings. But emotions aren't chemicals, they are simply feelings you gained while being raised as a child. That's why some people are more sensitive than others. It isn't a chemical imbalance, it's just how you are.

2007-11-10 20:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by Travis 1 · 0 0

Chemicals do not feel anything; the chemicals in your brain (neurotransmitters) are released in order for you as a living organism to survive. Emotions are the result of our thoughts touching our body (which cause neurochemicals to be released). If we are wrong in our thinking then we cause too much of one and/or not enough of the other type of neurochemical to be released which can lead to emotional problems. The amygdala, a small area in your primitive brain (brain stem or cortex), is the emotional center of the brain. This is the area of our brain where we develop (or fail to develop) coping skills to deal with stress and anxiety. If this area is not developed properly during the early years of life than we can experience stress, anxiety and hypersensitivity syndromes through out the rest of our lives.

2007-11-10 21:14:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-10-16 02:44:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

the body is a strange thing , and there is no scientific reason for most of the chemical imbalances which occur , unless it is a malfunction , of endorphins , or the pituitary gland etc , which affect the body in effect , the chimicals dont feel emotion , the chemicals which are released are caused by reations of your emotions , and bodily functions , they do there job , they do what your messages of your body emit to them .

2007-11-10 20:44:39 · answer #6 · answered by DSV 6 · 0 0

Philosophically speaking we can never be sure, because we can't ask objects questions and get answers. It ties into a debate about souls and spirits. Scientifically speaking though there's no way. Chemicals that lack a certain level of complexity are not capable of ''feeling'', and when I say that I referring to humans and animals as a complex mass of chemicals.
Hope that helps.

2007-11-10 21:12:07 · answer #7 · answered by Hans B 5 · 0 0

hmmm... thats a very interesting question. I don't think so, i'm inclined to think that the chemicals just make you feel emotions, so that you feel the emotions, not the chemical.

2007-11-10 20:47:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the brain emits chemicals that make you feel ??? you should re-read your question.
the chemicals don't feel... the chemicals 'cause' the feeling.

2007-11-10 20:48:19 · answer #9 · answered by quisp007 3 · 0 0

NO

2007-11-10 20:42:29 · answer #10 · answered by gernan20876 3 · 0 1

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