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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…

6 min readMay 26, 2021

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Today is a Good Day To Lie

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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…

6 min readSep 16, 2019

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What Is It This Time?

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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

13 min readNov 28, 2018

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

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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…

11 min readSep 14, 2018

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How Do You Feel With A Plastic Brain?

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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…

5 min readSep 7, 2018

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Why You‘re The First To Feel Awkward.

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From Alexa to self-driving cars, emotion-detecting technologies are becoming ubiquitous—but they rely on out-of-date science

17 min readSep 5, 2018

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Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions

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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…

7 min readAug 25, 2018

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Feeling the Music 1: Pushing down; Dragging up.

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

3 min readAug 21, 2018

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Rich Firth-Godbehere

Rich Firth-Godbehere

Book Author

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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