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by machiaweliczny 2226 days ago
Tell me difference between sense and emotion? I don't think there's fundamental difference. OK, maybe emotions are just derivatives over senses.
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Sense: touch, seeing, smell and so on. One could argue what all senses are, but this is the characterization of it.

Emotion: a process that involves cognitive interpretations of your context (environment + thoughts) and a physiological feeling through the senses (heart rate, tingly sensations, weird feelings in eyes). Check out the James Lange theory. There are better theories, but this has the fundamentals.

I ad libbed this one, I wanted to show that there is a difference. It wasn't my intention to be pinpoint accurate.

Senses are for collecting sense data, emotions are a state of being they are experienced in real-time and can never symbolized or described. You cannot tell someone what happiness is they ave to experience it for themselves. Sensed data can be encoded in language/symbolically for example we can describe music with music notation.