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Evolution appears to have assembled the brain machinery of emotion and feeling in installments. First came the machinery or at the circumstances -- the machinery of emotion. Second came the machinery for producing a brain map and then a mental image, an idea, for the reactions and for the resulting state of the organism -- the machinery of feeling.
The first device, emotion, enabled organisms to respond effectively but not creatively to a number of circumstances conducive or threatening to life -- "good for life" or "bad for life" circumstances and prolonged the impact of emotions by affecting attention and memory lastingly. Eventually, in a fruitful combination with past memories, imagination, and reasoning, feelings led to the emergence of foresight and the possibility of creating novel, nonstereotypical responses.
As is often the case when new devices are added, nature used the machinery of emotion as a start and tinkered a new emotion components. In the begining was emotion, but at the beginning of emotion was action. ~ Page 79 / 80
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