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#322 - Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Emotion and Emotional Pain: The Antithesis

The demotion has a very strong component of bodily prediction in it. There's an old picture of emotion that goes back to William James, I'm sure that you know it,. But there doesn't seem to be one-to-one map between every emotion we can feel and the perception of some set of bodily changes. The feeling of a fast beating heart when you're working out at the gym versus when you're just sitting down and having a panic attack or something like that. You know, these are very different feelings. And yet the bodily stuff you're picking up on might be very similar.

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