Lisa Feldman Barrett - Emotions: Facts vs. Fictions

[@equamba]

59:00 The brain makes decisions about what to learn and what not to learn. How does it do it? If we align our educational and schooling policies and strategies to the physiological processes of the brain, we might unlock the true learning potential of the students

[@uyweread]

Beautifully produced, extremely well-articulated, and the takeaway makes your ideas applicable. Thank you!

[@prasenjit134]

Absolutely loved the talk , including the jokes made(which the audience did not seem to be very kind to , may be they were busy absorbing the main topic , cause they could not pause to sink in like we can do online stream here). She says she cant comment on consciousness but her theory does talk in volume about how brain works as a predictive model , based on the available sensory inputs from external world and from our own bodily reactions and actions , it makes a story , a context . Which does sound very similar to Anil Seth's controlled hallucination. what she talks about is not just about how emotions are constructed in our brain , rather how as conscious beings we experience things , how we build the narrative of I , from a 1st person point of view, inside our brain.And all these end up sort of echoing what Daniel Dennett talks about on his book "From Bacteria to Bach and Back" , about his famous "cartesian gravity " and how consciousness might just be one illusion .This can be termed the ultimate claim of reductionism but this is the only one which seems to make full sense right now. I just wish she speaks more on dualism and mindfulness in this context , on her new books. Unlike Daniel ( An amazing thinker ) her words are so more accessible to non technical people like us.

[@hyacinth1320]

So accessible!

[@briseboy]

They were busy, like Wile e. Coyote, in discovering where they had brought themselves to, looking down. Their soon-to-come cratering did not invoke associations with a pleasurable future.They might have laughed more had she provided pizza.They ARE Canadians, and that slightly differing culture has in general slightly differing cultural inculcations as to what is funny. Early social input and emphases cause differing individual and ingroup associations.Different European cultures are famed for THEIR different concepts of what constitutes basic humor. Do not, for example expect that others will interpret your release of sulfide gases to be regarded with the same hilarity as do you. It may offend those too enamoured of their artificial perfumes.

[@resilientrecoveryministries]

She seems to be saying that I feel some sensation, and the brain makes a guess as to what the sensation means. But take the case of public speaking anxiety. But the brain doesn't just experience sensations and interpret them. It PRODUCES them, too. If I feel butterflies in my stomach, that sensation was produced by the brain as it interpreted the situation as potentially embarrassing. I think the relationship is bi-directional. Yes, the brain plays a huge role in deciding what sensations mean. But when the brain interpreted a situation as scary, it produces responses that can include butterflies and nausea. Now, i agree, I might tell myself that the sensations in the stomach are actually signs of "excitement."

[@ytinformes2]

The brain predicts or decides what you are going to do? For instance, when you are going to stand up, some research state that the "automatic limbic brain" would have decided for you to stand up and prepare your body to do so, and then, a little time later, your frontal lobe receives the info and you become conscious of what you are going to do. It only seems as if you had decided to stand up, but in fact your automatic brain did it for you before you even thought about it. So is it a prediction or a decision?

[@AA-ul9qh]

The brain is indeed a predictive machine based on generalized patterns & incomplete info., & human is a meaning-making social being. Gotta LOVE how this puts the person directly in the driver's seat! No more excuses & blaming others; Mindful living matters! Regulate your breathing & go outside to walk/exercise daily; the quality of your life & your general well-being depends on it. & ladies, please PLEASE err on the side of caution, even if your sexist doctor tells you anxiety is the cause of your heart troubles!!! If you're a doctor, stop labeling female patients as 'emotional' when they express themselves & symptoms in detail!

[@alonsorobots]

I've see a couple of her talks now, and she often scolds the audience for not laughing.

[@mishpult]

What makes me happy is Lisa's intelligence and the sound of her voice

[@hannesmatt1330]

thank you very much for this extraordinary talk and your great scientific work on emotions. Also thanks to the audience for these really good questions! The Q and A session after the talk was a great addition to the actual talk :)

[@maximilyen]

Wonderful scientist .

[@nimim.markomikkila1673]

38:00 ... a King!

[@MissTiffanyGalore]

I loved this

[@bobwrotenstien315]

As a non academic, let me give a super simplified example to highlight my confusion: If I have a pang in my stomach and also a crazy man on the bus is wielding a knife, my brain reaches into its memory patterns and predicts I need to get ready for a fight. If I have a pang in my stomach and also my partner is telling me "we need to talk" , my brain reaches into its memory patterns and predicts I need to check my bank account. My question is: how does the stomach react to each situation in the first place? Surely that physical reaction was initiated from the memory bank.

[@briseboy]

You will learn to tentatively associate interoceptions with events and experience. Memory, association, learning are very much the processes of a brain. AsDr. Barrett says, the brain evolved as a predictive organ, one that creates heuristics - quick assessments from limited input. She traces the development of relationship using what's called Sympathetic - Arousal , and Parasympathetic, homeostatic - return to anabolic processes, systems. Both function at contingent levels, as the individual organism "predicts likely usefulness of response of stimulating action or return. At present it is difficult to describe in a language and culture experiencing events in binary terms. Her description implies active sensory choicemaking, something we share with all other living organisms and recognize in all neurally-based organisms. See the four Fs for your generalized options, and make sure to understand that a long-evolved obligate social omnivore has evolved the extreme social-oriented manipulative skills through which to signal and thus accumulate [RELATIVELY!] appropriate responses enabling success at those four Fs. Symbolic language to improve success involves a capacity for describing events not actually occurring at this moment. This allows imagination, simulation (an old neuroscience word), as well as extreme capacity for deception, fiction, fantasy,complex simulations far dissociated from reality. So much so, that we are by far the most deceptive of all known species. Especially in social situation, and exposed to our own species, we internally test and explore simulations of possible future actions. If memory experience, or previous simulations stimulate us to act on our cardhouses of simulations, we will continue to act toward what may seem to you to be complex intentions, even though it is only the simulation construction that is complex. Because we actually believe in the reality of our constructs, we self-deceive. GO from there, before attempting to "gain" in your social mind some imagined "superiority" over others doing so with you or around you to variable attentional degrees.

[@zubileegluckgluck]

Check out the "Adaptive Information Processing" model, which is the foundation of EMDR trauma therapy. Putting the information from Francine Shapiro about the AIP model, and the information in the Barrett's book together is making my brain explode.

[@muhammadumair9074]

Started with claim that whole world was thinking wrong about emotions and she will give the ground breaking research based upon her 1000's of experiments. What she presented was infer by other scientist by using common sense and other scientific instruments. Nothing novel here.

[@kikipt]

And your credentials, experience and research would be? It's easy to sit around and listen to a lecture prejudicially with the intent of demeaning it - when one hasn't bothered to understand the material. Read the book, Einstein!

[@IA52342]

Good jokes, but here is the problem, with logical setup. If you accept her "no sound without human" ploy, you must also accept these three falsehoods: 1) At sunrise on a deserted island, since there is no human to see the light, therefore there is no light; 2) same deserted island- since there is no human to perceive the green palm fronds, the yellow trunk of the palm tree, the brown of the coconuts, therefore there are no colors there; 3) as a volcano erupts and spews lava all over the island, since there is no human there to be incinerated, therefore there is no heat there. Scientific truth: light, heat, sound and colors are scientific truths, with or without her or her psychology friends being present. so what is she trying to achieve with the fake "no sound" routine? How about; some form of dominance? Getting people to repeat false things she plants in their (your) mind(s) is straight out of the book "1984", and makes her the person in charge of your mind. Think about it. (A slightly different way of explaining it is in the movie "Alice in Wonderland", when one of the characters tells Alice that the words mean whatever he says they mean, whenever he says so.)