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moods, feelings


there is a lot of angst that seems to go into 
defining moods, feelings and emotions
these are just words coined by other humans after all
so why not just take the common understandings
moods most people would say 
are emotion states that last a while
feelings are emotions defined by what they refer to
no need to wrangle over the issue

once an emotional state appears 
it tends to color our reception of the world an ourselves
a bad mood makes the world and ourselves seem terrible 
and vice versa

to suggest that we create these emotional states 
as it appears lisa feldman-barrett does
suggests then that we can 
deliberately call up
a good mood 
 or a bad mood ..
why don't we just call up good moods all the time then?
​or is that not her thrust? 



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  • introduction
    • emotion : definition >
      • how the mind works
      • why live
      • why be happy
    • DNA >
      • survival
      • artificial intelligence
      • the self
      • reasons for living overlap
      • behind the reasons >
        • dna extended phenotype
        • overcome adversity
      • Meaning, which makes us content
    • who are you
    • DNA the architect of mind​
    • happiness fear and humour
  • the uselessness of mystery
  • invent happiness
    • unhappiness
    • positive emotions
    • negative emotions
    • mechanisms >
      • programmed
  • failures of emotions
    • the master
    • the gap
    • the other side of the gap
    • ignorance
    • binary versus analogue
    • blindness
    • challenges
    • escalation
    • power
    • mental illness is emotions out of control
    • drugs
    • crime
  • solutions
    • simple rules
    • diligence
    • focus
    • equanimity
    • awareness
    • intuitive
    • DNA vs you
  • humour
  • fear
  • depression
  • emotion meter
  • quiz
    • quiz answer
  • religion
  • questions for you
  • Emotions are autonomous
  • moods , feelings
  • the self and beneficial AI
  • you don't know what you are doing
  • emotions as weapons
  • stoicism
  • derivative thinking
  • taming the amygdala
  • criticism
  • philosophy
  • dna directives.
  • philosophers and emotions
  • philosophers
  • dna the designer...proof
  • response to emotions
  • science and emotion
  • social behaviour and emotions
  • emotions and politics
  • conatus
  • science
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  • free will
  • introduction
  • dopamine and neurotransmitters
  • input process output