Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

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Burnett questions all empathetic notions and posits that everything you consider unique about yourself are chemical processes that happen to each individual.

Emotions are frequently portrayed in science fiction as a liability/burden, a weakness, and that humans will always be threatened by or inferior to any intelligence that lacks or is immune to emotions. Very up-close and personal, this book examines the role of emotions in numerous facets of life, ranging from the most fundamental biological processes to cutting-edge technology. Reading Emotional Ignorance, Cardiff author Dean Burnett’s superb delve into the scientific explanations of how emotions work has helped my own self-care rituals: it understands that these matters are complicated, and aids the reader’s understanding too.Hij zit zelf waarschijnlijk al zo diep in de stof dat het daardoor moeilijk is het in ‘Jip en Janneke’-taal uit te leggen. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Finally, I have both book and Audible copies of this work and it feels like I have spent many hours wanting to value the book more than I have.

He believed that being surrounded by family or friends who were also in mourning would have aided in surviving the ordeal. Dean Burnett has appeared on NPR's Fresh Air, CBC's The Current, Ireland's NewsTalk and countless platforms and publications in the UK. Ik heb van dit boek een leesexemplaar mogen lezen vanuit de boekhandel waar ik een bijbaan heb (de vertaalde Nederlandstalige variant: ‘Doe normaal!In this case it is singularly true because the reason for the derailment of the book originally envisaged has produced a different* and better book. Much like Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt, Burnett links humorous and touching personal stories with scientific knowhow .