Emotions
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The second thing that we do to make a place our own is we attach meaning and
emotions
to the things that we see along those lines.
We can understand this process by understanding a little bit about
emotions
in general.
So the basic human emotions, those kinds of
emotions
that we share with all other human beings, exist because they motivate us to do good things and they keep us away from doing bad things.
So one of the features of disgust that makes it such an interesting emotion is that it's very, very easy to elicit, in fact more so than probably any of the other basic emotions, and so I'm going to show you that with a couple of images I can probably make you feel disgust.
Darwin was probably one of the first scientists to systematically investigate the human emotions, and he pointed to the universal nature and the strength of the disgust response.
Richard Dawkins: "We've evolved around courtship and sex, are attached to deep-rooted
emotions
and reactions that are hard to jettison overnight."
So while disgust, along with the other basic emotions, are universal phenomena, it just really is true that some people are easier to disgust than others.
The fact that
emotions
influence our judgment should come as no surprise.
I mean, that's part of how
emotions
work.
In fact, I had always thought it was a series of emotions, from very high to very low.
And once you have such algorithms, an external system, like the government, cannot just predict my decisions, it can also manipulate my feelings, my
emotions.
And if somebody can manipulate your
emotions
effectively, democracy will become an emotional puppet show.
So the first unproven claim is that you can use brain scans to read people's thoughts and
emotions.
Sure, it is involved in positive
emotions
like love and compassion, but it's also involved in tons of other processes, like memory, language, attention, even anger, disgust and pain.
You know, the mind whizzes away like a washing machine going round and round, lots of difficult, confusing emotions, and we don't really know how to deal with that.
I hadn't really thought that it could be sort of preventative in nature, until I was about 20, when a number of things happened in my life in quite quick succession, really serious things which just flipped my life upside down and all of a sudden I was inundated with thoughts, inundated with difficult
emotions
that I didn't know how to cope with.
By that I mean not being lost in thought, not being distracted, not being overwhelmed by difficult emotions, but instead learning how to be in the here and now, how to be mindful, how to be present.
And that's what these are for, in case you've been wondering, because most people assume that meditation is all about stopping thoughts, getting rid of emotions, somehow controlling the mind, but actually it's quite different from that.
It's more about stepping back, sort of seeing the thought clearly, witnessing it coming and going,
emotions
coming and going without judgment, but with a relaxed, focused mind.
Charles Darwin believed that insects have emotion and express them in their behaviors, as he wrote in his 1872 monograph on the expression of the
emotions
in man and animals.
It's kind of like landing on Mars and looking out the window of your spaceship at all the little green men who are surrounding it and trying to figure out, "How do I find out if they have
emotions
or not?"
Could we really be the great generation that Mandela asked us to be? Might we answer that clarion call with science, with reason, with facts, and, dare I say it,
emotions?
But I managed to control all the
emotions
inside me, and answer the questions.
And finally, because Romo is an extension of me, I can express myself through his
emotions.
We broadcast a chemical signature of our
emotions.
Otherwise, it was neither sinister nor disturbing, although even at that point it was clear that it had something to communicate to me about my emotions, particularly
emotions
which were remote and inaccessible.
Throughout all of this, what I would ultimately realize was that each voice was closely related to aspects of myself, and that each of them carried overwhelming
emotions
that I'd never had an opportunity to process or resolve, memories of sexual trauma and abuse, of anger, shame, guilt, low self-worth.
Language represents specific stages in our lives, and terminology that is linked to our
emotions.
There's also the six
emotions
and that elusive x-factor.
And therefore, he says, "How do I account for this inexplicable lack of
emotions?
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