“LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.” KnowsHumansHeartScienceNamesSidesEmotionHuman NatureEmotionalHumourRedSeatsSentimentsOne TimeOrgansLiver Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“If you have just an emotion, you would not necessarily feel it. To feel an emotion, you need to represent in the brain in structures that are actually different from the structures that lead to the emotion, what is going on in the organs when you're having the emotion.” IfsNeedsFeelsDifferentEmotionBrainStructureOrgans Author:Antonio Damasio
“So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.” ThinkingImportantProcessEmotionBrainStructureCollectionsOrgansStemCerebral Author:Antonio Damasio