What is emotion and where it comes from is one of the philosophical questions that have been around since ancient times. People often wonder if the source is human brain or any other organ. Most refer to the heart, as it feels pain when something bad happens.
Biologically, the brain realizes that the situation taking place is negative or depressing, and the heart reacts to the external environment, as well as internal understanding that the situation is stressful. Mentally, the person does not agree with whatever is happening, and the natural reaction is to be displeased or the opposite, pleased with that which is taking place.
Human emotion is anything that a person feels and which does not happen logically. Reasoning does not get involved until after someone has felt or experienced something emotionally. For example, a person wakes up at the sound of the alarm clock, at five in the morning. The person feels not rested, physically tired and the brain agrees that more sleep would be best. Right away, an individual experiences displeasement about getting out of bed.
The original feeling is instinctual, as the person does not logically think that they should feel tired, on the contrary, a person wants to feel fresh and rested when getting up. Later, the brain joins the negative emotion, as it associates the waking up with going to work, feeling sleepy, being cold in the winter wind or any other negative stimuli.
From another perspective, a person might have positive plans for the day, thus getting up would be wanted and an individual will feel anxious and happy to wake up. This goes to show that the primary response to any outside event is primarily experienced by the emotional part of the organism and later, is analyzed by the logical part of the mind.
The brain is the center of the person’s being and information is stored there in memory cells. Through repetition and learning people develop a certain connection with the events in their life. No one can really say why they like certain smells or colors, but they feel better when a specific signal is received by the brain.
One possibility is that this sort of relation is wired genetically, and the information that was passed on through genes from previous generations of relatives is the gathering of specific likes and dislikes. It can also be said that when a child is developing, they sense the outside world, and the more they observe a certain behavior from people around, the greater the number of repetitions is, the stronger their connection becomes to that behavior or attitude.
Most likely, the basic framework towards kindness, honor, anger and hate do have some genetic bases, and as a person is growing, they learn what their individuality responds to more. It is a fact that some people are more sensitive than others and cannot imagine themselves hurting or disrespecting another living creature, no matter how much external pressure they are subjected to. This directs to the fact that there is strong emotional, gena etically wired predisposition towards a specific feeling or emotion.
Overall, the intricate nature of how and why a person feels certain things and not others is extremely difficult to pinpoint. There are many factors that play a role, but one thing is certain, which is that emotions come first and reason comes second.