Core emotions also contain physical impulses, which are designed…

Core emotions also contain physical impulses, which are designed by nature to be an immediate and adaptive call to action. Did you ever reach into your refrigerator and pour yourself a glass of milk without checking the date of expiration? One sip of sour milk provokes an immediate reaction-you spit it out. Our taste buds, threatened with poison, send a signal to our emotional brain-the limbic system to trigger disgust. Disgust, one of the core emotions, causes nausea, a physical response in the body.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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