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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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How Your Brain Is Yoked to Action

The idea that physiology is yoked to action is a very old idea in the study of the peripheral nervous system. Your brain makes an inference about what you will sense based on those motor movements so your experience of the world and your experience of your own body are a consequence of those predictionsThose concepts when your brain makes a concept for emotion it's constructing an instance of that emotion which is how emotions are made.

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