Is emotion in the event or in the body's model of it?
Anil Seth · Interoceptive Inference, Emotion, and the Embodied Self · 2013
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Emotion can be framed as the brain's inference about the cause of its own bodily signals — a prediction, corrected by input, rather than a readout. This makes emotion partly constructed and partly embodied, and explains why the same arousal can be labelled fear or excitement depending on context.
ProbeFind your pulse now. Note the story you would tell about that sensation if you did not know its cause.