PHILOSOPHY - NEUROSCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 4: Basic Emotions

In this Wireless Philosophy video, we examine the idea that certain basic emotions are shared and experienced similarly by all human beings, regardless of differences in factors like language and culture. Are there mechanisms or modules in our brains that are devoted to specific emotional responses, such as fear, anger, or joy? If not, how can we be sure that people from very different cultures truly understand each other’s experiences?
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[@ReynaSingh]

Interesting video. Keep it up

[@Teddy143Fresa]

I'm certain that a large source of miscommunication is the absence of a distinction betwixt our feelings and emotions.
Their conflation obfuscates a place of intervening power.
My feelings amount to internal feedback.
My emotions are my form and tone, emoting my feelings to other persons.
Emoticons provide the same function in written text.
The intervening place is in recognition that I can be mad but don't need to emote anger.
We're contagious, being able to articulate our feelings is more effective in communicating than emoting them.
*This isn't much other than my take on it. Insofar as i know.

[@realpe29]

First, I think that one of the main problems with this lies in the need we have to name things with our language, and hence want to name or categorize other types of basic emotions with which we understand each other across different cultures. As long as we understand each other, the fact of categorizing something so abstract is not worth it, since it is an emotion with which you are already understanding yourself, there is no reason to put words to that emotion as such.
Second, I think we are trying to define a much more complex language with a lot of information, which is DNA and neural, with our language, which is basic and poor when talking about such a complex topic.
Third, the problem of the incongruity of the brain results after studying the basic emotions in different people, could be due to the fact that it is not important that they are located in the same place, but rather that they are separated from each other and therefore This is different in each person, and some of the reasons I put forward were, for example, that each emotion is encoded by a part of the DNA that is different from the rest of the emotions, which makes each one differ in a different part of the brain, although when it comes to expressing it, it is the same in all humans, since what we usually externalize, such as emotion or language, is more basic than what is really happening.

[@youtubeuser8232]

Honestly, the background music is too loud and a bit annoying.