Comments by "wishsnfishs" (@Umbrellagasm) on "Andrew Huberman" channel.

@felipeschneider1978 Thank you for your response, when I have more time I will digest it line by line, but I do appreciate you actually following up in a thoughtful manner.
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@felipeschneider1978 What about what she said is gibberish? That's quite a claim to make about one of the most respected experts on emotional research. She's among the top 1% cited scientists in the world.
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As an actor, I disagree with your interpretation somewhat - it's not that we aren't capable of making inferences about people's emotional states, it's that emotional states do not exist in biologically determined categories, and that we do not have hard wired, naturally occuring neural equipment to process them. This also aligns with my acting training - one of my best acting teachers warned us against relying on emotion to drive performance, because emotion does not reliably read on the face, body or voice. That's part of the reason Lee Strasberg style (The Method) acting training has dramatically dwindled in popularity.
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@felipeschneider1978 so I've read your comment, and I do generally agree that her language is rather obtuse in a way that I can't determine is a fault of her ability to communicate to a layperson (a fault of many scientists), or if it really does represent some structural incoherence in her worldview, but based on your reply it seems like you're viewing her interview through some kind of political/culture war lense, which is just a kind of conversation I don't really have any interest in having, so I'll wish you good day and bow out of this thread.
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@felipeschneider1978 Fair, but what did she say that was gibberish or illogical? I'm genuinely curious
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