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#92 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Balancing the Brain Budget

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is the Brain Just Constantly Interpreting the Outside World?

The brain is constantly interpreting the meaning of internal sensations and external sensations. In other cultures, some cultures don't make a distinction between thoughts and feelings. It's all one thing to them. And it's not that they're they're wrong and we're right. It's that their brains have learned a way to make sense of their sense data in relation to what's going on around them in their world. There is actually no fundamental difference, biologically, between a mental illness and a physical illness....

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