Why do we use the word heart for emotional purposes?
Like "heart VS brain" dilemmas or "you're in my heart" etc. I mean, it's just muscle and can only pump blood through our bodies. We are our brains.
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caccoon · 36-40
I think that it's just because people find such a tug o' war between the logical and the emotional. It seems like they should be separate. It all happens in the brain, but the pain, or ecstatic fluttering is in the heart, so we use the heart as a metaphor for the emotional. I guess.