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added by Frank Brown and · updated 1mo ago
added by Frank Brown and · updated 1mo ago
Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions. From sensory input and past experience, your brain constructs meaning and prescribes action. If you didn’t have concepts that represent your past experience, all your sensory inputs would just be noise. You wouldn’t k
... See moresimon added 4mo ago
“Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world.”
simon added 4mo ago