Crítica al reduccionismo implícito en la teoría clásica de las emociones.

The traditional inside-out view of emotion suggests that facial expressions are biologically inherent expressions of specific emotions, with context being considered as a secondary, moderating factor. This view reflects a mechanistic, 17th-century perspective where causal factors are separated and studied independently. In contrast, complexity theory proposes that multiple sources of causation, including contextual factors, are all equally important and can have a nonlinear impact on the outcome. This suggests that the brain processes signals from the body and the world, generating its own signals, and reinstating past signals, with all these factors being crucial for understanding complex causation. The traditional approach in psychology tends to prioritize certain signals, such as those related to vision, as primary, while labeling everything else as context. However, the brain's functionality is complex, involving a network of causation where all factors, not just the primary ones, contribute to the overall outcome.