Your original question seems to lead to a discussion of the meaning of reality. "Physical" feelings impulses are, at the level you mention, the same as "Emotional" feelings - they are both just electrical impulses. And there we delve into murky waters. As many philosophers have remarked - beginning with Plato's Cave Allegory on into Wittgenstein in the 20th Century and Terry Winograd at the end of the Century- the meaning of reality and do we really "experience" or "know" it at all is something almost impossible to objectively determine at a remove. To feel in the physical sensory sense is to experience a series of reactions to physical stimulii; while to feel, in the emotional sense, is also a series of reactions to physical stimulii - audio, visual, tactile... As we can never step outside of our "selves" it becomes logically impossible to arrive at any independent understanding of our environment. Godel was another who discussed this problem.

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