The CB contribution to affect and the affect contribution to the CB. How emotions are calibrated within a virtual reality (of thought and dreaming) for the purpose of making complex decisions about the future, with minimal error

doi:10.4324/9780429474200-9

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The CB contribution to affect and the affect contribution to the CB. How emotions are calibrated within a virtual reality (of thought and dreaming) for the purpose of making complex decisions about the future, with minimal error

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Précis: This chapter attempts to further tie together how ideas presented in earlier chapters on the CB and affect, and the research literature from neuroscience on the CB, including diseases involving CB pathology, might best be understood in relation to each other. Central to this integration are the seminal ideas of Susanne Langer, who anticipated where we were going long before many of us knew it, and did so with lucid style, philosophical insight, and amazing grace.