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Lisa Feldman Barrett - Your Emotions Aren't What You Think

Mind & Life

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Your Brain Is Creating a Conceptual Combination

The brain has this really amazing capacity, which cognitive tists call conceptual combination. And nevo scientists call generativity. It's basically this idea that your brain can take bits and pieces of past experience and combine it in novel ways to create representations. So when i'm giving this talk live, you know, i have this great image, it's a little movie of am pylons, electrical pylons jumping rope. The cool thing is, hen you watch this video, you feel this thud in your chest, and you can hear the thud as the tylons hit the ground,. But of course, why would you feel vibrations in your chest and why would you hear

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