Monday book recommendation: How Emotions are Made by Lisa Barrett! She proposes the theory of constructed emotion, where emotions aren't "biologically hardwired, but instead are phenomena that emerge in consciousness in the moment."https://www.amazon.com/How-Emotions-Are-Made-Secret-ebook/dp/B00QPHURT6 …
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Barrett says that the classic view that emotions “happen” to you—an event occurs, neurons get triggered, and you make a facial expression you can’t control—is wrong and our brains instead construct “instances of emotion” based off learned concepts.
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A Goodreads review describes the book as “mad ballsy” and “a virtual slaughterhouse of sacred cows,” which is all the more reason to read it.
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Also really like Minsky's "The Emotion Machine"; I wonder how the two compare, and perhaps fill in the blanks for each conception.
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