Anil Seth

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170 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea · Gold: How does the brain conjure consciousness? · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

It's making an estimate of what caused the sensory signals that come from within the body.

It's a perception of the physiological condition of the body.

So the example that William James gives is that if you...

It's all about grizzly bears.

I don't really know how common grizzly bears are.

Exactly, exactly.

But just imagine you see a grizzly bear and you feel afraid and your body also starts to alter.

It gets itself ready to run away or to fight.

Adrenaline starts coursing through your blood.

Your blood pressure rises.

You might think that it's the sight of the bear that causes the emotion and the emotion causes the changes in the body that then allow you to run away.

But what James says and what I think is going on, too, is that you see the bear and immediately your body changes.

Adrenaline starts coursing and so on.

And it's the perception changes.

those changes in the body that is the emotion of fear and it's built by the brain in exactly the same way through this controlled predictive perception as are our experiences of the outside world so what you're suggesting is that emotion is just our way the word we put on a category of physical feelings in a way

I would say it's the word we use for a category of perceptions that are very closely tied to the state of the body and to an evaluation the brain is making about basically the prospects for continuing to stay alive.

Things feel good or bad in emotion.

Well, I think emotion is a bit more complicated than that.

But very broadly, emotion has valence.

Things feel good or bad now and are likely to be good or bad in the future.

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