![]() ![]() The theory of constructed emotion, in contrast, tells a story that doesn’t match your daily life-your brain invisibly constructs everything you experience, including emotions. ![]() Its story features familiar characters like thoughts and feelings that live in distinct brain areas. The classical view is intuitive-events in the world trigger emotional reactions inside of us. “The theory of constructed emotion and the classical view of emotion tell vastly different stories of how we experience the world.There is a gap between how we experience the mind and how the mind actually works.Buddha was limited but managed to get a ton of insight through introspection.They are all statistical summaries of populations of instances.We downregulate the variation within categories and upregulate the variation between categories.Models, concepts, words, and perceptions are all examples of our brain’s way to discretize the continuous world.Reality is messy and rarely fits into neat little boxes.“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”.Let natural selection of models and ideas take place. Responding to prediction errors like a scientist is crucial.Learning new words, journaling, meditation, healthy social interactions, and therapy can help us calibrate our models.Precise words allow us to more efficiently match our concepts to the incoming data.The best models are not always the most accurate ones but the most useful ones in an evolutionary sense.Better mental models lead to a better life. ![]()
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