Conscious experience is assembled from feelings

The feelings in the muscles, in the head, in the arms, in the legs, in the genitals, etc. changes greatly from one instant to the next. Many of these changes depend on our environment – if an attractive person walks by, certain parts of our anatomy might wake up. If a great song comes on the radio, our toes might start tapping as if they alone wanted to dance. And yet we believe that our whole experience – our emotional state – will persist. We fail to notice how the parts – the subconscious changes in our body and in our environment – affect the whole, our conscious experience.