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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Allostatic Relevance of Emotions

What precipitates an emotion is most often, I mean, it can just be a thought, right, or a memory of something that's happened. The referent is usually out in the world, very likely in some social circumstance. Our brain needs to be able to predict the allostatic consequences and here at Europe, you're absolutely right, allostasis is sort of the behavioral process of maintaining homeostasis.

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