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#129 – Lisa Feldman Barrett: Counterintuitive Ideas About How the Brain Works

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Emotions Are Like Money

The number of variables involved in that kind of categorization is nearly infinite no i don't think so because there is a physical constraint right like you and i could agree that um we can fly in real life but we can't. There's a tremendous amount of leeway yes yeah that's the point  emotions are like money basically they're they're like money they're like countries they're like kings and queens and presidents it's not obvious to me that this kind of emergent agreement should happen with emotion as our experiences are so different for each of us humans.

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