#wildflowers and barley core
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The book is fittingly heavy in his hands, and the title reflects the warm lighting of the room. His hands don't shake as he holds it. He's endured so much, so much worse, that he can't allow this to frighten him. However, something in his core feels hot and leaden.
The Last Will and Testament of Charles Francis Xavier
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett, 2017)
“A third and final riddle is, “Are emotions real?” (...)
The riddle forces us to confront our assumptions about the nature of reality and our role in creating it.
But here, the answer is a bit more complex, because it depends on what we mean by “real.”
If you talk to a chemist, “real” is a molecule, an atom, a proton. To a physicist, “real” is a quark, a Higgs boson, or maybe a collection of little strings vibrating in eleven dimensions.
They are supposed to exist in the natural world whether or not humans are present—that is, they are thought to be perceiver-independent categories.”
(…)
“A rose is usually considered a flower, but it becomes a weed if you discover it in a field of vegetables.
A dandelion is often considered a weed, but it transforms into a flower when placed in a bouquet of wildflowers or if it’s a gift from your two-year-old child.
Plants exist objectively in nature, but flowers and weeds require a perceiver in order to exist. They are perceiver-dependent categories.”
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“Money is a classic example of social reality. Given a rectangle of paper with a dead leader’s face printed on it, or a metal disk or a shell or some barley, a group of people categorized that object as money, and it became money. (...)
Make something up, give it a name, and you’ve created a concept. Teach your concept to others, and as long as they agree, you’ve created something real.
How do we work this magic of creation? We categorize. We take things that exist in nature and impose new functions on them that go beyond their physical properties.
Then we transmit these concepts to each other, wiring each other’s brains for the social world. This is the core of social reality. Emotions are social reality.”
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“Emotion categories, in my view, are made real through collective intentionality. To communicate to someone else that you feel angry, both of you need a shared understanding of “Anger.”
If people agree that a particular constellation of facial actions and cardiovascular changes is anger in a given context, then it is so. (...)
At that point, people can transmit information about that concept among themselves so efficiently that anger seems inborn.
If you and I agree that a furrowed brow indicates anger in a given context, and I furrow my brow, I am efficiently sharing information with you.”
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