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240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

The Michael Shermer Show

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Emotions Are a Kind of Categorization

We now view emotions as a kind of categoriation. For example, talked about fear and anxiety. Theyre they are different, but they're also eslt. But it's a spectrum. It is not a sharp delineation. You can youan you can cut it here or there. And that really illustrates a lot about the categoriation of emotion in general. Emotion is more like color. You go from blue at one end to red at the other end.

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