Sublime

we need to link these sub-cortically created emotional states to our cortex.

The second defining feature is the feeling that I could have done otherwise.

Todos já sentiram em algum momento uma emoção desproporcional em relação a uma coisa sem importância ou uma emoção sem origem aparente.

the brain does not know the difference between the internal world of the mind and what we experience in the external environment.

Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the absence of emotion—the actual clinical inability to experience emotion caused by lesions to an area of the brain called the VMPFC, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—can cause people to go broke on a gambling task.

Acredito que ela tentava impedir um colapso mental organizando e regulamentando sua vida.