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54: Emotions Are Not What You Think (with Lisa Feldman Barrett )

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Physiology and meaning making in the brain

Physiology is the process of meaning-making in the brain./nThe brain predicts future signals based on present information./nMeaning-making is the construction and categorization of emotions or events./nThe conventional mechanistic way of thinking may not be correct./nObjects don't inherently possess features or properties, they are relational./nThe property of redness is a result of signals and brain interpretation./nRedness exists in the relationship between objects./nThe relational view in physics parallels the concept of meaning-making.

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