Feelings

@Dr. Michael, Thank you for the response. No, it was not what I was saying. Emotions is unconscious and biological. The word "unconscious" just means we are not aware of it just like we are not aware of the flow of our blood. Emotional reaction is biological means there is a change in biological movement (heart rate, muscle tension, skin temperature) to something. Emotions doesn't become feelings because they are two different "things". Emotions is a biological reaction (emotional reaction) where feeling is how we "interpret and label" our experience of the reaction. They don't become conscious but it's something we can experience thru our internal senses. The subjective experience of emotions is feelings. Emotions doesn't dissapear when being awared just like heart beats doesn't dissapear when being awared. It is like with our visual experience, our eyes move all the time reacting and scanning our environment (this is emotion), but we focus on selective visual experience that we call "seeing" (this is feeling).

Emotion reacts to stimuli, including audio stimuli such as music. We usually say "music affects our emotion". If the music feels pleasant, "I like it". Since feeling is only label and interpretation of emotional reaction, MUSIC DOESN'T AFFECT FEELING. Music doesn't affect feelings just like we can't verbally ask a person "Could you get angry with me?" They will look at us like we are crazy. But, we can give them something to get angry about. That something is the stimuli that emotion reacts to. So, music affects emotion. The how part is another question. THat's what the excellent article that Imhe provided tried to answer.

Having said all that, we do have experience with music, listening or creating, for the sensation or feelings of the emotional reaction to it. There is an interaction between the sound and the cognitive-emotional reaction that triggers our reward system when we listen to a music we like. This is like smoking. It is not the nicotine that some people are addicted to. They are addicted to the pleasant sensation as the result of interaction between chemical in the nervous system and the chemical in the ciggarettes. They are addicted to the feelings they get. Our experience is music is similar in a way that what we like is the feelings we get as the result of interaction between our nervous system and the sound that we hear.