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Ralph Adolphs

What Ralph Adolphs thinks about consciousness

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  1. Our readingEquating an emotion with the conscious feeling of it turns emotion research into consciousness research, which is why the two must be kept apart.

    Their wordsAnd the other question is if you tie emotion to the the conscious experience of emotion, that is you equate you conflate emotions with feelings. Well, then you're not studying emotions, you're studying consciousness.

    ↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 5th of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingAwe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.

    Their wordsI think it's a uniquely at least as we have it it's uniquely human emotion and it's based on a broad sort of metacognitive ability we have which is to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time travel.

    ↗Neuroscience of Emotions & Tools for Improving Emotion Regulation | Dr. Ralph Adolphsyoutube.com 11th of 22 in this recording