If you are saying that emotion is not just a physiological process, then what is it? You are heading in an almost spiritual direction
I am not saying that. I am questioning which part of the process we LABEL as emotion and whether or not it IS emotion or it is just something we have invented.

There is nothing spiritual about this. This (to me) is about the human capacity to invent oneself. To use words and ideas to create things that are not there. In OURselves and in creatures. My basic premise is that we are all animals. Humans are animals. That's my premise.

We may be far from our basic animal survival roots, but we are still that animal.