emotions are just a reflection of beliefs, they follow that, so they have no blame in themselves for anything — OmniscientNihilist
start feeling the emotions physically first — Pfhorrest
Social reality: When you are born, you can’t regulate your body budget by yourself - somebody else has to do it. In the process, your brain learns statistically, creates concepts, and wires itself to its environment, which is filled with other people who have structured their social world in particular ways. That social world becomes real to you as well. We’re the only animal that can communicate purely mental concepts among ourselves. No particular social reality is inevitable, just one that works for the group (and is constrained by physical reality)...
Culture works most smoothly if we believe in our own mental creations, such as money and laws, without realising that we’re doing so. We don’t suspect the involvement of our own hand (or neurons, as it were) in these constructions, so we just treat them as reality. But we constantly mistake perceiver-dependent concepts - flowers, weeds, colours, money, race, facial expressions, etc - for perceiver-independent reality. Many concepts that people consider to be purely physical are in fact beliefs about the physical, such as emotions, and many that appear to be biological are actually social...
When you create a social reality but fail to realise it, the result is a mess. Every psychological concept is social reality. Not all cultures have them...
When we misconstrue the social as physical, we misunderstand our world and ourselves. In this regard, social reality is a superpower only if we know that we have it. — Lisa Feldman Barrett
Imagination and Intellect are responsible for scientific and technological developments – combined with Emotions, latter can have destructive results. — waechter418
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