through the screen doors of discretion • The insular cortex of the brain, he argues, is the...

“ The insular cortex of the brain, he argues, is the area of our brains where we become our ‘sentient selves,’ consciously aware of the emotions connected to our internal bodily states. It is the core brain region where our sense of being a body gripped by good or bad feelings emerges moment to moment, alone and in complex social interactions with others. And remarkably, Caltech’s Allman proposes, the emotional logic ‘evolved out of the neural circuitry that gave us the ability to make food-relation decisions’–-the circuitry of taste, in other words, is at the core of how we emotionally experience the world around us.
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