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Wow I don't know why this is blowing my brain much. 🤯 I guess because it's paradigm shifting for me on how I understood the brain 🧠 to work (my layman's perspective)

You can think of emotion categories like cookies. There are crisp ones, chewy ones, sweet ones, large, small, flat, rounded, rolled, sandwiched, floored etc. Members of the category "Cookie" vary tremendously, but are deemed equivalent for some purpose. Cookies need not look the same nor be created w/same recipe; they're populations of diverse instances. Any category of emotion is filled w/variety (e.g. Sadness)

• There does not exist a single "fingerprint" for any single emotion, unlike what we have thought classically for 2000+ years
• An emotion can be expressed from firing off several different patterns of neurons that are different between individuals

I can see why these claims were shocking when she first presented them. I mean even emojis are made based off of what we even think of a s fingerprint of an emotion