Brain Food: An Expensive Emotion
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Brain Food: An Expensive Emotion
the art of feeding your mind: a framework for conscious consumption
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Everything your body does, inside or out, requires energy. To manage its “body budget” across hundreds of body parts and billions of cells, the brain has to constantly predict the body’s energy needs. Many of these “budgetary changes” we experience as emotional experiences.
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These associations are stored in your brain along with the corresponding emotions from that day. And they often do not come with full stories. Therefore, your brain might not encode the logical connection between the Krispy Kreme and the car crash.