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We Remove Ourselves From The Experience Itself To A Surrogate Of The Experience, Which Is Whatever Measure You Take From The Brain, Be It The Electroencephalogram Or Magnet Encephalography Or Say Functional Magnetic Resonance. So It's Pretty Tough To Make Those Comparisons.

I Continue To Be Fascinated By The Fact That Feelings Are Not Just The Shady Side Of Reason But That They Help Us To Reach Decisions As Well.

Something May Have Happened Before, And Yet This Thing That Happened Just After May Be So Important That You Don't Even Know About The Thing That Happened Before And When You Tell Your Story To Yourself, Or To Someone Else, It's Going To Be Told Not On The Basis Necessarily Of The Time Course, But Rather On The Basis Of How It Was Valued By You.

People Who Are Great Thinkers, In Science Or In Art, People Who Are Great Performers, Have To Have That Kind Of Capacity. Without That Kind Of Capacity, It's Extremely Difficult To Manage A High Level Of Performance Because You're Going To Get A Lot Of Extraneous Material Chipping Away At The Finery Of Your Thinking Or The Finery Of Your Motor Execution.

Leaving Out Appraisal Also Would Render The Biological Description Of The Phenomena Of Emotion Vulnerable To The Caricature That Emotions Without An Appraisal Phase Are Meaningless Events. It Would Be More Difficult To See How Beautiful And Amazingly Intelligent Emotions Can Be, And How Powerfully They Can Solve Problems For Us.