EP. 62: How Emotions Are Made: Lisa Feldman Barrett On The Neuroscience of Feeling
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Your Brain Is Predicting Everything That's Going to Happen Next
The classical view of emotions where you see a snake, it triggers fear is not so simple. Your brain is only receiving sense data from the sensory services of your body. When light hits your retina or sound waves, like changes in air pressure, hit your cochlea, the signals go to your brain. Those signals are the outcomes of some cause but your brain doesn't know what the cause is. It has to guess at the outcome. That's called a reverse inference problem or just an inverse problem. If you don't know it all, your brain has to try to plan a myriad of actions which is difficult and metabolically expensive. But if you can narrow down the uncertainty to
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