"When you say to someone —follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system. So, the metaphoric heart we always boast about while giving advice to our friends, is actually not anywhere near the biological organ known as heart. Rather it too, like all other elements of the human mind exists only in the brain."

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Abhijit Naskar is an Indian author and public speaker whose writing addresses neuroscience, social ethics, and global humanism.

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