![]() I always hate the idea that I don’t have free will, and that “I” am essentially forced to act in a certain way - or more accurately, have no option to act in a different way - by combinations of my upbringing, culture and biology. She also mentions the “illusion of free will” almost in passing, in a way that made the lightbulb click on for me. This makes sense of a lot of things, and makes perfect sense to me - in fact, it starts to seem totally obvious! Instead, each instance of emotion is constructed from all kinds of different inputs, in the moment, and may not look anything like another instance of the same emotion if the subject is put in a brain scanner. In summary, she posits that emotions are not something pre-formed in the brain, not something genetic, and not something you can point to on a scan. ![]() Lisa Feldman Barrett explains her subject well, dissecting previous evidence as well as her own research and synthesising them into her full theory. How Emotions are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett ![]()
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