I Got Interested In The Emotions After

Something May Have Happened Before, And Yet This Thing That Happened Just After May Be So Important That You Don't Even Know About The Thing That Happened Before And When You Tell Your Story To Yourself, Or To Someone Else, It's Going To Be Told Not On The Basis Necessarily Of The Time Course, But Rather On The Basis Of How It Was Valued By You.

Leaving Out Appraisal Also Would Render The Biological Description Of The Phenomena Of Emotion Vulnerable To The Caricature That Emotions Without An Appraisal Phase Are Meaningless Events. It Would Be More Difficult To See How Beautiful And Amazingly Intelligent Emotions Can Be, And How Powerfully They Can Solve Problems For Us.

You're Not The Same After, Say, An Incredible Love Affair That Went Very Well Or A Love Affair That Went Bad. Or Something That Happens To Your Health, Or Something That Happened To Somebody Else's Health, That Is Close To You. Or Something That Happens Professionally.

I Think It's Reasonable To Say That Even Thought, In All Likelihood, We Have Slightly Different Experiences Of Reality, They Are Similar Enough To Us Not To Clash. In Other Words, I'm Not, It's Very Unlikely, In Fact, Let's Say Impossible, For You To Say The Situation In Which You And I Are In Right Now, Relative To The Machinery That Is Capturing This.

You Can Be Highly Concentrated On A Person, On A Problem, And Be So Good At Excluding All Other Material That That Becomes Not Just The Focus Of Your Experience, But Practically The Sole Content Of Your Experience, Everything Else Falling By The Wayside.