From a #neuroscience perspective, or not: What is an emotion?

I advocate for distinguishing "innate behaviors" versus "emotion concepts", see www.lesswrong.com/posts/iYzFKJ...

Lisa Feldman Barrett versus Paul Ekman on facial expressions & basic emotions — LessWrong

1. Summary / Table of Contents This post is mostly a book review of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett. …

A state. Probably. Maybe.

I appreciate the question! I do wonder whether these sorts of definitions tie things up. For instance, my sense is that progress in memory research happened when researchers stopped defining all the types and how they relate and started by operationalizing it. “I’ll study how the brain does X”