Your Brain Constructs Emotions

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Soth in sublimina, how your brain constructs your total experience yor and a lot of it is your unconscious mind. Our view of the world is an illusion based on that kind of processing. An emotion seems to work with vision just like you do with vision. So i think the most reasonable theory for why we feel emotions is this: It's because our conscious mind can't process all the data coming into us at once. And so when people tell me what they're feeling, I'm not going to be able to understand them very well until I get some more information about their feelings.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…