I'm just absolutely living for this #sfn2024 discussion between Lisa Feldman Barrett and Kent Berridge. Makes me miss animal communication as I keep thinking about acoustic self stimulation and sensory exploitation and how they follow these models of emotional genesis and regulation in animals.

I garbled the question I wanted to ask about a little, but I think it came through: we know that animal signals can change internal states, at least on a neuroendocrine level. This can happen both in terms of self stimulation and in terms of attempting to change another individual's state...