I know in my heart........

[sanspeur]

Feeling something "in your heart" is not entirely untrue, but it is because emotions trigger a bodily response by releasing adrenaline.

Adrenaline is the primary catecholamine released from the adrenal medulla in response to stimulation, and is responsible for
increases in neural activity (alertness), cardiac output and blood pressure. It is a powerful cardiac stimulant.


YouTube - How the Body Works : Physical Responses to Emotion

[old_cold]

Originally Posted by sanspeur

Feeling something "in your heart" is not entirely untrue, but it is because emotions trigger a bodily response by releasing adrenaline.

Adrenaline is the primary catecholamine released from the adrenal medulla in response to stimulation, and is responsible for
increases in neural activity (alertness), cardiac output and blood pressure. It is a powerful cardiac stimulant.


YouTube - How the Body Works : Physical Responses to Emotion

Quite true, which is why I think the early writings were so.
I just find it strange that it persists to this day.
But maybe we'll be 'dialing' the phone forever.

[Iolo]

Language was invented by our hardly-human ancestors and works by metaphor, which itself works by comparing the intellectual and unfamiliar with the physical and familiar ('Inflation is rising' - like a heap of grain). We therefore take all sorts of nonsense for granted because we can't think outside language (we believe absolutely in a highly-problematic continuing 'self' because language insists on 'I' or its equivalents in a high proportion of the statements we make, for instance). That said, the more archaic the language, the more archaic the thought. We talk about 'the Lord', for instance, but most of us don't have lords, and certainly don't bow down when we meet them. The 'heart' thing is a bit similar. We 'feel' religious stuff because, often, we were brought up in it, in the strongly-emotional family, whereas science is learned outside that in (relatively) non-emotional contexts. It seems to me that if we want to grow up, we need to look at our metaphors: a lot of them are nonsense.