What if muscle tension is sometimes signal jamming?

Why do we often experience feelings as in the body? For example, why do I feel anxiety in my chest rather than just “knowing” I'm anxious? 

Here’s an idea: What if when you have a feeling in your body, sometimes it’s there for others to see? What if feelings use the body as a display?

I’m not sure exactly how this would work, but perhaps it's mediated by subtle muscle movements or vibrations.

But there’s a problem: What if you want to keep a secret? (A “Hostile telepaths problem”.)

For example, let’s say that John sometimes has a feeling in his neck that represents the information “I have the choice to leave the social situation I’m in right now.” (Maybe this particular feeling manifests in his neck because it precedes turning his head to move his attention away from a social situation, but who knows.)

And let’s say another part of John’s system essentially predicts, “If other people know that I’m considering this, they will react negatively. So we should hide the information.”

What do? How jam the signal?

What if… tense muscles! Make neck too stiff for muscle communication! Then secret can be kept! 

I say this because I’m pretty sure this is what caused my chronic neck pain and muscle tension.

Maybe muscle tension is sometimes signal jamming.

This thought came to me after I had the chance to talk to a dating coach about his models. His guess is that women feel repelled by men with muscle tension. He claimed he helps men become more attractive via reducing muscle tension.

Under this model, it would make a lot of sense that to feel cautious around men who show signal jamming (ie: muscle tension). After all, if the information was predicted to be good, why would he jam the signal?

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