Most of us don't think of ourselves as the architects of our emotional life. In this book Lisa Barrett brings together a wide range of research studies that suggest not only are we the architects, but we're the plumber and electrician as well, constantly building and remodeling our interior emotional life.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10 threads
from Lisa Barrett’s…

3. Thread 1:
Even after a century of effort, scientific
research has not revealed a consistent
physical fingerprint for even a single emotion.
(pg. xii)

4. Thread 2:
Emotions don’t have a single expression but
a diverse population of facial movements
that vary from one situation to the next.
(pg. 11)

5. Thread 3:
Most neurons are multipurpose, playing more
than one part, much as flour and eggs in your
kitchen can
participate
in many
recipes.
(pg. 19)

6. Thread 4:
Every moment you are alive, your brain uses
concepts to simulate the outside world. Now
consider this: what if your brain uses this
same process to make meaning of the
sensations
from inside
your body?
(pg. 29)

7. Thread 5:
From your brain’s
point of view,
locked inside
the skull,
your body is
just another part
of the world it
must explain.
(pg. 66)

8. Thread 6:
People spend at least half their waking
hours simulating rather than paying atten-
tion to the
world around
them, and
this pure
simulation
strongly
drives their
feelings.
(pg. 71)

9. Thread 7:
In effect, you construct the environment
in which you live. You might think of your
environment
as existing in
the outside
world, sep-
arate from
yourself,
but that’s
a myth.
(pg. 83)

10. Thread 8:
You bear some responsibility for others,
because your actions shape other people’s
concepts and
behaviors, creating
the environment
that turns genes on
and off to wire their
brains, including the
brains of the next
generation.
(pg. 155)

11. Thread 9:
Modern neuro-
science has shown
that the so-called
limbic system
is a fiction, and
experts in brain
evolution no longer
take it seriously.
(pg. 168)

12. Thread 10:
Learn new words. Words seed your con-
cepts, concepts drive your predictions,
predictions
regulate your
body budget,
and your
body budget
determines
how you feel.
(pg. 181)

13. Thread 11:
Emotional granularity
is the construction of
finer-grained emo-
tional experiences.
People who make
highly granular
experiences are
emotion experts.
(pg. 180)

14. Thread 12:
A human brain can create all kinds of minds.
Three ingredients are: affective realism, con-
cepts and social reality. They are inevitable
and therefore universal, based on the anat-
omy and function of the brain.
(pg. 283)

15. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
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Slide 2 - https://alchetron.com/Lisa-Feldman-Barrett-159662-W
Slide 6 - https://positivepsychologyprogram.com/body-mind-integration-attention-training/
Slide 5 - http://bit.ly/2oVkIVo
Slide 11 - https://www.slideshare.net/rongon28us/5-limbic-system
Slide 10 - https://www.pinterest.com/ellenmorellen/science/
Slide 15 - http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/23193-personality-traits-brain-scans
Slide 9 - http://bit.ly/2ptpA5H
Slide 8 - http://theghostdiaries.com/dod-military-simulation-creates-a-sentient-world/
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Slide 13 - http://justsomething.co/23-new-words/
Slide 14 - http://www.zfl-berlin.org/project/affective-realism.html

16. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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