Biotech
Dr. Sherif Karama
Psychiatrist.
Researcher in neuroscience. He specializes in magnetic resonance neuroimaging.
McGill University. Montreal, Canada
Do emotions create physical substances specific to each of them?
Assuming that particular emotions exist, we have not yet identified specific physiological markers for them.
Can tears memorize the emotions that cause them?
This requires considering a particular definition of emotions (see the definition of emotions). On the basis of discrete emotions (assuming such things exist), let’s assume that tears contain a mixture of biochemical components emitted during emotional situations, it is not certain that for a specific individual a combination of neurochemical components would be the same as that of another individual who feels the same emotion. In other word (and I want to clarify that we're clearly speculating here) if we are ready to play the hypothesis game, we could say that even if we were able to take the "decoction" of a specific individual and to have someone else "drink” it, it is far from certain that the second person would feel the same as the first one because its nervous system is different.
Can one imagine consuming tears in order to live the emotions that cause them?
One can imagine many things. We may be able to extract components from tears, but there is nothing clear yet. In fact, there is no scientific data suggesting that this is possible or even plausible.
Can we keep / store emotions in a physical form?
Maybe one day but there is nothing for the moment which may suggest that we can.
Nov 16, 2009