Is Consciousness an Emergent Property?

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Lan Liu: Could be we've just gone about trying to understand consciousness and emotions as a subdivision of that incorrectly all these centuries. And that it's going to be an emergent property. He says he is also working on a novel, cause i thought it's about time i i wrote a physics novel. It's os a thriller. The plot is very physics heavy. But, ye, there's nothing better than good science fiction.

xtraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have proven that emotions are as critical to our well-being as thinking. In this conversation, Shermer and Mlodinow explore the new science of feelings.

Journeying from the labs of pioneering scientists to real-world scenarios that have flirted with disaster, Mlodinow shows us how our emotions can help, why they sometimes hurt, and what we can learn in both instances.

Shermer and Mlodinow discuss: the difference between emotions and feelings/moods/drives/passions; how the scientific understanding of emotions has changed; thought vs. feeling; system 1 vs. system 2 cognition; mind-body connection: how does our physical state influence what we think & feel?; the neuroscience of emotions: how the brain constructs emotions; Lisa Feldman Barrett challenge to Paul Ekman’s theory of universal emotions; Schachter-Singer theory of emotion; the effects of social context on emotions; and more…