How to think about feelings - with Leonard Mlodinow

[@TheRoyalInstitution]

What do you think about your feelings? Let us know in the comments - and watch the Q&A for this talk here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4qvZI2ZZdVmlZI

[@john_hunter_]

I've thought about this a lot. I think emotions are a sense in themselves. Emotions seem to be a sense that can sense the internal state of the brain. So it can sense your thoughts & then feeds you an emotion based on what you are thinking. Emotions also seem to be connected to the sense of touch in some way. I think this because you can also feel emotions in certain parts of your body. Maybe it's sort of like a virtual sense of touch in the same way you can imagine images or sounds in your mind. When you play a song in your head, it can sound real but it's a sound generated by your own brain & wasn't generated from an external sense. Emotions are a sense that is generated from the brain & isn't from an external source. I think it may also be a certain kind of synesthesia since it seems to be tied to the sense of touch. When you think about something, the emotion part of the brain generates the sense based on what you're thinking, & then uses the sense of touch to present it to you. In the same way people with synesthesia might see a number & then their brain presents that number to them with a certain colour. I think emotions exist as a sense because of evolutionary purposes. Senses are used to get you to behave in certain ways. When you feel something painful in your arm, you will remove your arm from the source of pain. Or if you taste something good, you will eat more of it. Emotions like loneliness seem to drive people into being in relationships with each other. Being in a relationship is an activity that would increase the chances of reproducing.

[@savage22bolt32]

Honestly, when I read the title I skipped this one. A few days later, I was bored, so clicked. Leonard is an interesting man. I liked the conversation, especially towards the end. If he wrote a non-fiction novel of his family's travails, I bet it would be a best seller.

[@NoxDNA]

E=MC^2 Emotion = The net energy, in motion Mass = is the net stored energy. Trauma (good/bad) disregulation of the body. C = Speed of light. Aka information from the 12 cranial nerves. You're welcome. 2000 hours of my time over 365 days, doing trauma research. Delta-Physical, Delta-Mental, Delta-Genetic trauma.

[@GMC2001]

What a man. I feel humbled and grateful to hear what he has to say. Thank you.

[@User-jr7vf]

The addition of the timestamps is a very good idea. If I feel like a topic still needs to sink in, I can just go back to that topic and re-watch only the specific part of the video.

[@riosen3903]

I mostly use emotions to draw motivation energy, Ideally I want to get rid of the lazy state i wake up everyday and trigger my hyperactivity the earliest possible,So I can start doing stuff I have deemed trivial automatically, without thinking, and that even includes talking and socialization. I mostly thinks of them as vectors spaces or colours that can combine and make a shades gamut rather rather than things that are in opposition and override each other. Like I kinda think that complex emotions made of antagonizing feelings love-hate are more funnier than by separate

[@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667]

Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality as always say

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Don't think about it. Feel it. That's the whole point.

[@railgap]

If that was your takeaway, you either failed to absorb, or misunderstood, half of the content. "the whole point" is that BOTH thinking AND feeling are very important. I know, I know, it's fifty-two minutes long and that's a lot of big words to listen to, but if you don't try again you will have wasted your time.

[@A-X-25]

Can you make a podcast titled "How to feel about thinking"?😂😂😂😂

[@A-X-25]

Can you make a podcast titled "How to feel about thinking"?😂😂😂😂

[@hockeywiz7136]

The multiverse

[@Sikhanddestroy4130]

Ppl o

[@gidi1899]

I study the functionality of different emotions for a few years now. (pain -> point the area at risk, fear -> expect to put an area (in your inner world) at risk, promote existing the situation, ...) And I used to treat emotion as a sign for the actual function that takes place with regard to my intent, But when it comes to "pain", I feel I should treat it as if my intent held by me over a cliff, and as long as I hold the intent I keep it alive, which is a little different than treating emotions as signs. Is there a better view of emotion, that feels right when the emotion takes you?

[@hannahperkins6183]

Honestly this is a fascinating comment. I don’t think my emotions have intents! Trying to figure out your comment brings me to the beginning of it: the functionality of emotions. I’m just not sure that that’s what they’re there for. What makes you think emotions exist to be useful? Mine certainly are not! Lol

[@fuzzy_lumkins0018]

When I hear smart people talking about emotions one thing usually comes to mind and it's not the person I'm about to quote but the people who thought it was a good idea. Interviewer "how many moons does the earth have" guy "I don't know how am I supposed to know that I got a masters in liberal arts not geography... Oh I don't know this 30" Enough Said

[@adam346]

Oh QI and the undiable duo of Stephen Fry and Allan Davis.

[@fuzzy_lumkins0018]

@@adam346 no it was a person who just graduated from a California university I would like to add yes he got a masters and yes I said graduated

[@stinkymccheese8010]

Seems to me that people these days are a little too concerned with feeling and not concerned enough with rational thought.

[@adam346]

that statement makes me angry.

[@AtlanticPicture]

I'm offended that you were angered

[@ZeHoSmusician]

Humans have been like that (irrational, I mean) for thousands of years...

[@You_Can_Do_If]

Our energy and surrounding awareness and reality integration is because of a omnipresent fungus invisible to us which we are connected in the frontal sinus

[@smlanka4u]

The Buddha said that the mind uses 52 Mental Factors to process a thought.

[@ZeHoSmusician]

Is the Buddha a certified neuroscientist? No? Then nobody cares what he might say!

[@MegaSpooney]

This guy is at least 10 years behind the times. Batja Mesquita’s book, Between Us, and Lisa Barrett’s book, How Emotions Are Made, have already debunked virtually all of what he said here. Pretty embarrassing for him

[@arasharfa]

love Barrets book. reading it right now.

[@MegaSpooney]

@@arasharfa Nice, if you haven't already read it, cross-cultural emotions researcher Batja Mesquita's book, Between Us, is well worth checking out, in my opinion

[@joshwalker9446]

Please stop with the video calls

[@ulysissira9808]

I lost my hope today.

[@eddiejones.redvees]

I made the Decision to stop watching after the first three minutes

[@savage22bolt32]

You missed the end? I almost didn't start the vid, but it was pretty good as it got going!