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BI 155 Luiz Pessoa: The Entangled Brain

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Are We Still Comfortable Using the Word Emotion?

The word emotion has a conceptual space that historically at least in Western culture is associated with things like weakness or frivolity or non-usefulness. As we learn more about let's say the emotional circuit motifs and the integration of emotion with cognition, does that change our conception of emotion enough? Do those boundaries of concepts do they need to be kind of blurred as well? I think it could be going in a way that is changing the way that we see it and see it in a ways that for instance if we take some of the Damasio ideas that is intergo to decision making so it becomes, the connotation becomes very different right?"

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