“Emotions come from the heart”. Scientists: the brain has nothing to do with it – breaking latest news

For the Egyptians the heart was the seat of thought, memory and emotions, the person responsible for character. Up to the last they held him in high regard and weighed him at the moment of death: if he could balance the feather of truth the deceased could triumphantly go to the other world, otherwise he was swallowed by Ammit, the mash-up crocodile monster, lion and hippo. In the Bible the word heart appears more than a thousand times, the engine of what man decides to be and do (“God has given us a heart to know, to think”). Let’s forget about the poets, Dante even dreams that Beatrice will eat her before getting lost in the forest of error. And then the brain, exalted by the geometric West as the headquarters of reason, considered capable of controlling a leg, an itch, a clandestine bet? He takes orders from below. From that muscle that cradles him with his heartbeat or sends him into tilt without asking permission. It has always been suspected that there was a close relationship between the two, a bidirectional hot line, however, spoiled by gravity, so the signal of fear starts from the upper floors and the tachycardia horses paw in the chest. This correspondence can be documented by anyone who has been pursued by a jaguar or by love, but it has long been biased in favor of the large and mysterious organ contained in the skull, a whole tangle of synapses capable of flooding the body with saving orders ( breathe!) and more or less pleasant emotions (desperate, she doesn’t want you). Little by little, science has corrected the game: those two phenomena exchange crucial information but it is the heart that reigns supreme, in fact 90/95% of the nerves that connect them are ascending neural fibers and we must not bother the god Anubis for. ..