The brain stores memories with no emotions attached
Posted on April 18th, 2017
.. in hippocampus, and amygdala reacts to those memories with emotions when the memories are recalled.
I just read this somewhere. But hey this means that the emotions are dynamically generated each time a memory is accessed. How come that each time I get a very similar emotional reaction to a certain memory, with the amount of memories being produced every second? That would mean that there's a model of reacting to memories (I think the same model is used for reacting to present reality, hence the difficulty in identifying projections) stored somewhere (I guess in the whole body) and updated with each experience. And the fact that the reactions are so consistent over time means that this model must be very fine-grained and take into consideration huge set of factors when determining an emotion. That actually matches my experience of seeing how my brain works, when it was recalling huge amounts of details about past events and trying to brute force link them to the present experience.
Ah it all makes sense. And the conclusion is that every little event in my life influences my future emotional responses. It also means that theoretically it should be possible to change the emotional response patterns with an intensified and prolonged intentional effort. Which is also in sync with what I've learned about the brain so far.