Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until reasonably recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude has changed more recently and the publication of Descartes’ Error in 1995 contributed to this.
You might describe the update as 'I think and feel, there I am"
