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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Alice Teodorescu

3. -> "emotions are not a set of important subsystems sitting alongside the cognitive subsystems; in the brain, emotions rule. We mean this literally. All control in the brain, all prioritizing, all organizing, all demoting and promoting, starting and stopping, enhancing and squelching within cognitive processes, is done by what we refer to as cognitive emotions or, more precisely, the epistemic emotions. These are a set of emotions that, together, have the effect of encouraging the mental behaviors that constitute a certain form of reasoning and epistemic assurance." D. Dennett "Inside jokes - Using humor to reverse engineer the mind"

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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Alice Teodorescu

2. -> in an interview Kahneman puts it in terms of "life satisfaction" which feels more earthly :)

"Kahneman draws a distinction between happiness, the momentary joy we feel when we do something pleasant like eat chocolate or hang out with friends, and life satisfaction, the feeling of contentment we experience when we look back at our lives with a sense we've accomplished something consequential." https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/nobel-prize-winning-psychologist-chasing-happiness-wont-make-you-happy.html

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