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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
The brain uses concepts to make sense of data. Emotions like “fear,” “sadness,” and “disappointment” are concepts just like any other. Just as your brain interprets a pattern of light as a “window,” it might interpret a pattern of bodily sensations as “fear” or “disappointment.”
Tiago Forte • How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
In these cases of disgust, longing, and anxiety, the concept active in your brain is an emotion concept. As before, your brain makes meaning from your aching stomach, together with the sensations from the world around you, by constructing an instance of that concept. An instance of emotion.
Lisa Feldman Barrett • How Emotions Are Made
