I am very glad to hear I'm not the only person in the universe who thinks everything has substance.  I thought I was out on a limb there and yet you are saying it is pretty much known.  

so if I say that just as we experience a smell through it's physical existence, we experience an emotion the same way.  I wonder if it isn't to do with all those tiny little hairs on our body, like little antennae.  In which case all those people who remove their hair with wax are losing a lot of information.  

It's all very fascinating.  There is the cockroach scuttling along the floor quite happily heading for some crevice it can hide in.  Oh you've seen it, immediately it is paralysed by fear, it panics and desperately races for the nearest hideyhole and then omg you have it cornered and I swear it if were a human it would be pleading for it's life.