Ralph Adolphs
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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.
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Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them. (opens korrents.com)
“The basic answer is that I think of emotions as functional states of a particular type. They should be understood by what they do, their function rather than how they happen to be constituted in the human brain or…”
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Emotions exist because a charging bear demands a response more flexible than a reflex and faster than a plan. (opens korrents.com)
“if you have a bear or a tiger, you know, something charging at you, that challenge requires a control of behavior that's intermediate between those two extremes. I can't have a reflex for a bear if it's far away or if…”
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A feeling outlasts the memory of what caused it: amnesic patients stayed sad long after they had forgotten the sad film they were shown. (opens korrents.com)
“So, I thought this was a really cool study because it showed very clearly that there is temporal persistence in emotions and sadness probably has one of the longest time constants as we know from personal experience.…”
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Emotions are functional states, to be understood by what they do rather than by how any particular brain or machine happens to implement them. (opens korrents.com)