Is There a Difference Between Emotional and Physical?

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i find this fascinating, because here you are a trained pechd physicist who worked with stephen hawking and taught at caltak. You've branched out. What i like about your career and is that you've kind of different things. So in a way, i feel like i'm getting an interpretation of something like emotions from somebody who's not just an egg head in the ivory tower. But i also think by at my my, sorry. S miht, think that my approach to it as a as a physicist, diving into the neural science and psychology literature, gives me an interesting perspective.

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…