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This chapter elaborates on how concepts are formed in our brain from the moment we are born and how new concepts continues to be formed through our brain's ability to adapt and learn-from past and present experiences. It explains the mental processes such as statistical learning, coneptual combination etc that we use to form concepts from an early age. Emotional granularity can point out your emotional intelligence.

The fourth chapter of How Emotions Are Made builds on key ideas like concepts, simulations, and predictions. It explains how the brain makes sense of the world through a loop of prediction, comparison, and error correction. Introducing "interoception," the brain's ability to sense internal bodily states, the author shows how it creates affect, influencing every choice we make. No decision is fully rational.