The Next Frontier?

My personal definition of emotion is the release of specific chemicals in the brain that create visual and physical responses bases on a reaction to a situation. I mentioned this on my post on the thread this is related too.

Example:

Epinephrine also known as adrenaline, is a chemical that is given off when we become angry. It allows the amygdala to send signals to the frontal lobe of the brain that then allows our neurotransmitters to speed up our heart rate and show other signs that we are angry.
Interesting! You’re obviously very empirically informed. I wonder if a human being who, by sheer fluke of birth, was born with a very low ability to produce epinephrine could get angry, by your definition. What if, by mere biological mishap, they had another chemical capable of causing the same reaction in the amygdala? It seems like if epinephrine is a lynch pin, then this person would also be incapable of anger.
 
Interesting! You’re obviously very empirically informed. I wonder if a human being who, by sheer fluke of birth, was born with a very low ability to produce epinephrine could get angry, by your definition. What if, by mere biological mishap, they had another chemical capable of causing the same reaction in the amygdala? It seems like if epinephrine is a lynch pin, then this person would also be incapable of anger.

You are the most logical, grammatically correct drunk I’ve ever met. Is that a Canadian thing? I’m impressed good sir!
 
Further to my last,

What about pain? It seems perfectly plausible that all the biological antecedents of pain exist in someone who, never the less, isn’t in pain. Morphine, for instance, doesn’t do anything for the tissue damage that many would identify as the biological basis of pain, yet the subjects often report feeling no pain. To me this is a datum that suggests that pain, for example, can’t be identified with its neural-biological causes, but with the conscious experience of pain. Maybe likewise for anger, love, regret?
 
You are the most logical, grammatically correct drunk I’ve ever met. Is that a Canadian thing? I’m impressed good sir!

Dude, totally just a waste with too much free time on his hands. But I appreciate the complement, and it’s always a pleasure hearing from you!
 
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