Our “biological response to auto-associative value calculation” or what we call

Our “biological response to auto-associative value calculation” or what we call positive or negative emotional response.

–“In neuroscience, valence is the intrinsic pleasantness or unpleasantness (goodness or badness) of a stimulus, emotion, or experience, acting as a fundamental signal for approach (positive valence) or avoidance (negative valence) behaviors, and is a core dimension of emotion processed in brain regions like the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex. It’s a key aspect of affective states, determining our subjective feeling of liking or disliking things and guiding motivated actions, even if unconsciously.”–