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

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Emotions in the West - A Neuroscience Perspective

Poets romanticizing humans have a bottom motion that we should move away from before to think about emotion from both a scientific and an engineering perspective. The evidence actually lines up beautifully with each other it just doesn't line up with the view of emotions in the west, says poet David Walliams. "Emotions are these profoundly unhelpful things that are obligatory kind of leg reflexes," he adds.

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