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An emotion is a fan-in, fan-out architecture: many different signals converge on one central state, out of which many different behaviours can follow.

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  1. Ralph Adolphs

    Bren Professor of Psychology

    I can get to the emotion state from seeing a bear or smelling a bear or hearing a bear or hearing a twig snap, hearing somebody yell there's a bear. Zillions of different inputs completely unlike the rigid reflex which only has one input and that's it.

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