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An incredible 50 percent of the words we hear cannot be understood out of context (when presented in isolation).
Everything you perceive around you is represented by concepts in your brain.
Concepts are not static but remarkably malleable and context-dependent, because your goals can change to fit the situation.
When your brain needs a concept, it constructs one on the fly, mixing and matching from a population of instances from your past experience, to best fit your goals in a particular situation.
Emotion concepts are goal-based concepts.
Your concept of “Happiness” in the moment is centered on such a goal, binding together the diverse instances from your past.
