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The human brain is a cultural artifact. We don't load culture into a virgin brain like software loading into a computer; rather, culture helps to wire the brain. Brains then become carriers of culture, helping to create and perpetuate it.
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Human beings are not at the mercy of mythical emotion circuits buried deep within animalistic parts of our highly evolved brain: we are architects of our own experience.
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The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science.
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Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them.
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An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.
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Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world.
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It takes more than one human brain to create a human mind.
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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.
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Through prediction and correction, your brain continually creates and revises your mental model of the world. It’s a huge, ongoing simulation that constructs everything you perceive while determining how you act.
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