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A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know

Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, art and history, vividly illustrates how emotions shape history.

2023

Richard Firth-Godbehere

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Rich Firth-Godbehere

Today is a Good Day To Lie

Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit and right-hand man to Boris Johnson’s early days in government, has spent a day in Parliament. A…

May 26, 2021

Today is a Good Day To Lie

May 26, 2021

Rich Firth-Godbehere

What Is It This Time?

“It’s about time you started writing more regularly”, my inner voice keeps telling me. Recently, I’ve been trying to find ways to find…

Sep 16, 2019

What Is It This Time?

Sep 16, 2019

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How We Get To Next

Emotion Science Keeps Getting More Complicated. Can AI Keep Up?

We may never be able to build a machine that can recognize the full diversity of human emotional experience

Nov 28, 2018

Emotion Science Keeps Getting More Complicated. Can AI Keep Up?

Nov 28, 2018

Rich Firth-Godbehere

How Do You Feel With A Plastic Brain?

Plastic brains and how we see colours might be the clue to how the understanding of emotions can vary from person-to-person…

Sep 14, 2018

How Do You Feel With A Plastic Brain?

Sep 14, 2018

Rich Firth-Godbehere

Why You‘re The First To Feel Awkward.

You may think that feeling awkward is something we all do and always have. But the emotion of ‘awkward’ might just be something new, and…

Sep 7, 2018

Why You‘re The First To Feel Awkward.

Sep 7, 2018

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How We Get To Next

Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

From Alexa to self-driving cars, emotion-detecting technologies are becoming ubiquitous—but they rely on out-of-date science

Sep 5, 2018

Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

Sep 5, 2018

Rich Firth-Godbehere

Renaissance 2.0: Digitising History

I’ve just been reading Timothy J Riess’s book, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: the Rise of Aesthetic…

Aug 25, 2018

Aug 25, 2018

Rich Firth-Godbehere

Feeling the Music 1: Pushing down; Dragging up.

Short and regular musings on making music and how it relates to emotions

Aug 21, 2018

Aug 21, 2018

Rich Firth-Godbehere

Rich Firth-Godbehere

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Emotions and ideas - in science, language, history, politics and philosophy. Relapsed musician. Always willing to consult, write or speak: DrRichFG@gmail.com

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