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This is, of course, our Dharma Punks Tuesday evening online gathering.

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And today, I thought I would give a in-depth talk explaining the latest theory of what emotions are and what they're not and our moods and

given all the new insights from cognitive science, affectual neuroscience, psychology,

point in one kind of interesting direction. So once we sort of dive into

the incredibly sophisticated world of what constructs our emotions, then we'll talk about how we can

actually influence the moods that we're in. And I'll talk about how we can actually influence the moods that we're in.

And I'll talk about specific practices that given the latest insights are the most promising

directions to influence the effectual states that we go through in life.

I hope that that sounds like a promising talk.

The classical view of emotion goes all the way back to Charles Darwin.

In I think it was 1872, he wrote the expression of emotion in man, which still deeply

shapes how we think about emotions, the folk understanding of emotions.

And Darwin proposed that emotions are innate, they're irrational,

they're universal traits that are tied via evolution to our animal ancestors, that each emotion

he believed had its own distinctive biological traits.

There was a physiological and facial expressions for happiness, sadness, or anger.

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