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Do emotions originate in the brain or in the body?

Do emotions originate in the brain or in the body?

This is the famous James-Cannon debate.

Do emotions originate in the body and then get perceived in the brain, where we invent a story to explain them, as William James theorized?

Or do emotions originate in the brain and trickle down to the body, as Walter Cannon suggests?

Content Consumers: Increasing Our Awareness

Content Consumers: Increasing Our Awareness

We consume enormous amounts of content in the form of digital media. It used to be magazines and television. We knew that watching too much television was “bad for you “. But now we live in a constant stream of images we receive through social media. And I think that although we are becoming increasingly aware of this, we have already become programmed to be dependent upon it.