"Emotions are triggered by what we like to call emotionally competent stimuli, that is, objects or situations that can be real, like in front of you, or be in your mind when you think and you recall, and they act on brain devices that were designed by evolution."
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Antonio Damasio, Brain and mind from medicine to society 1/2, Open University of Catalonia, 2005
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