She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.
The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body__ direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body__ response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine.
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The fundamental difference between an instinctive response and an emotion is this: An instinctive response is the body__ direct response to some external situation. An emotion, on the other hand, is the body__ response to thought. Indirectly, an emotion can also be a response to an actual situation or event, but it will be a response to the event seen through the filter of a mental interpretation, the future of thought, that is to say, through the mental concepts of good and bad, like and dislike, me and mine.
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