1. Share your Movie/Streaming/Media Picks 2. Emotion: How it operates

1. Share your Movie/Streaming/Media Picks 2. Emotion: How it operates. Its' role in our Body/ Brain/ Life

1). Share your Movie/Streaming/Media Picks
Come with several media picks in mind. We don't need all the following info but here are some ideas to contemplate. Tell us where you found it (theater, Paramount, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Cable, Podcast, Book, You-Tube lecture...). Is it still available or something from the past? Type (Horror, comedy, historical, sci-fi, romantic). Consider descriptions such as: pure popcorn fun, did it say something about society, philosophy, sexuality, the environment, literature,. Was it the visual beauty and/or the stimulating auditory,the writing? Other bits to consider might be: How long is it or how many episodes or seasons length of book...? You might want to include the actors, director, writer? Be succinct when you share. Don't forget any podcsats, fiction or non-fiction books, lectures on You-tube that might be in your interest.We will fit in as many choices as time allows.

2). Emotion: How it Operates. Its' role in our Body/ Brain/ Life
Lisa Feldman Barrett, of Northeastern University, argues that a main purpose of the brain is to read the body, and to regulate what she calls the body budget. Other writers talk about how emotions act as messages that the body sends to the brain to maintain homeothesis (stability of physiological processes). You may see a bully on the playground. Your brain then predicts your next action and speeds your heart rate and breathing to deal with it. You experience these changes as emotion — oh, this is fear or oh, this is anger — because your brain has created an emotion concept to make those physical changes meaningful.
You might think that in everyday life, the things you see and hear, influence what you feel, but it’s mostly the other way around: What you feel alters your sight and hearing, Barrett writes in ‘How Emotions Are Made.’ You also see how important it is to teach emotional granularity, something our culture pays almost no attention to. It has been suggested that high emotional granularity is beneficial for coping with emotional experiences because it allows one to label their emotions more accurately and deal accordingly. You also see that we’re not separate brains, coolly observing each other. We’re physical viscera, deeply interacting with each other. The important communication is happening at a much deeper level.
The Scottish philosopher David Hume(1711-1776) said, “Reason is, and ought to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

• How do you view emotion’s role in your life?
• Do you believe reason can and must trump our emotional response?
• How do you interpret the following flipped statements? You have heard the phrase, “Seeing is believing,” however one could argue that “Believing is seeing.”