![]() ![]() It is believed that emotions get triggered in different regions of the brain automatically and are hardwired. ![]() This perception of emotions is understood as universal, taught in psychology textbooks the world over, and is even reflected in the manner in which media depicts and discusses them. Thinkers, philosophers, and even modern-day psychologists such as Aristotle, Darwin, The Buddha, Freud, Descartes, The Dalai Lama, Steven Pinker, Paul Ekman, and many others ratified this classical perception. It is believed that one cannot truly control one’s emotions. The Classical Perception Of Emotionsįor more than thousands of years, humans have understood emotions to be reflexes, often influenced by evolution and existing beyond rationality. ![]() They are constructed in the mind and shaped by culture. ![]() Barrett shows that emotions do not merely emerge. We perceive them as distinct sentiments that need to be mastered. We often think of our emotions as fundamental forces that develop from the very nature of humans – fully formed. She shows how culture influences one’s emotions and how the human brain processes them. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s How Emotions Are Made (2017) gives a completely different view of how we understand our emotions. The movie not only touched the heartstrings of adults and children alike, but it also gave us a deeper insight into how humans perceive emotions. Pixar’s 2015 movie Inside Out, cartoonified human emotions of joy, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust. ![]()
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![]() ![]() David Christian is the author of ’ Origin Story A big history of everything’. ![]() And a key part of that learning will be knowledge of our modern origin story, because it can help us see the tasks that face us today, and face them with courage and intelligence. ![]() Sweeping in scope, finely focused in its minute detail, this riveting account of the known world, from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming, lays the groundwork for world history-and Big History-true as never before to its name. But things are speeding up and we will have to learn fast. It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture, the emergence of cities and states, and the birth of the modern, industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures. Cosmology, geology, archeology, and population and environmental studies-all figure in David Christian's account, which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of ""Big History."" Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe, the stars and the galaxies, the sun and the solar system, including the earth, and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings. "An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear, and Loup, named for and sharing her father's wolf-like qualities, is marked as an outsider.Īfter her mother dies, Loup goes to live among the misfit orphans at the parish church, where they seethe from the injustices visited upon the locals by the soldiers. ![]() A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically-manipulated and used by the US government as a weapon. Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a US military base inside a DMZ buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. Lushly written with rich and vivid characters, SANTA OLIVIA is Jacqueline Carey's take on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth. ![]() |