<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">When I was a teen I loved horror movies and don't recall why. I did get scared and usually ran all the way home. Not now. I have never gotten emotional from the visual arts - not at all. Ideas can get me really excited but not in an emotional way. It's more manic. I get on my laptop and order some relevant books.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">When I was in NIce, a touring choir put on Mozart' Requiem. I turned and told my wife that I would not be able to communicate during the performance. It just choked me up. There are time when I have to turn off a CD at home or in my car. Starting to tear up is not consistent with good driving. I have played several instruments since I was young but do not know if that has anything to do with it. Complete mystery to me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(0,29,53);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px">“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”.</span><span class="gmail-UV3uM" style="color:rgb(0,29,53);font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px"> Hume (well, maybe not totally slavish - some emotions are destructive) bill w</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 3:26 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in<br>
> biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing<br>
> belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each<br>
> instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.<br>
> <br>
> This is a blurb from Amazon for the bookI recently read: <br>
> How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain Paperback – Illustrated, March 13, 2018 Lisa Barett -<br>
> psychologist/neuroscientist<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Basic idea is fairly old: emotions are nothing but arousal interpreted. Arousal on a roller-coaster gets interpreted by some as<br>
> fear, by some as excitement, and by some as both. The fear giving the excitement a bit of a frisson. <br>
> <br>
> As for music - I have no idea, but nothing in this world can get me more emotional than music. It doesn't have to be classical.<br>
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Fascinating! Music does not at all have this effect on me. I'm this <br>
strange kind of human being who appreciates music, but, for me it is not <br>
essential in any way. I can go many days and weeks, quite happily, without <br>
hearing a song.<br>
<br>
Books, ideas, and movies cause more profound emotional reactions for me <br>
than music most of the time.<br>
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