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Daniel is 4% done

Ugh, this is going to be so problematic, I can tell already. a. Trying to identify a physiological emotional fingerprint with the tools they're using is like trying to diagnose your car's engine problems with a thermometer. b. The text so far stinks of strawmen to me and I'm not sure if it's willful or just sloppy writing.

— Mar 23, 2019 01:56PM

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

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Daniel is 11% done

Ah, psychology. Where not only can the experiments underpinning some of your core beliefs not be reproduced, some of the ones that can be reproduced turn out to be bullshit too. :) This book could stand to distinguish better when it is discussing emotions as experiences vs emotions as concepts as conflating the two seems to at least occasionally lead to misrepresenting the other side of the argument.

— Apr 04, 2019 01:12PM

Daniel is 9% done

Apparently, in this book every chapter is chapter 1. wtf.

— Mar 23, 2019 08:48PM

Daniel is 8% done

"The muffin-cupcake distinction is social reality"

— Mar 23, 2019 08:38PM

Daniel is 7% done

I think my kindle downloaded this from an alternate universe.

— Mar 23, 2019 02:41PM