The Mindful Geek: Mindfulness Meditation for Secular Skeptics by Michael Taft

Author:Michael Taft [Taft, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Manuscript
Publisher: Cephalopod Rex
Published: 2015-09-07T18:30:00+00:00

Besides actually inventing and expounding the theory of evolution, Darwin was the first to dig into the evolutionary view of emotions. By the 1950s, however, his evolutionary view of emotions had fallen into disfavor, mainly because theories based on genetics sounded too “Nazi” so soon after the war. Most scientists felt that emotional expressions were entirely culturally constructed—sort of a language each society invented and used to signal between members. Seen this way, emotions and emotional expressions should vary widely from culture to culture. Maybe people in other cultures laughed by farting, or something. But Paul Ekman, the researcher who the television fiction series Lie to Me was based on, demolished this view in the 1970s. He traveled to Borneo to gather support for the hypothesis that emotions were culturally determined. To his amazement, he found that people in Borneo understood all his emotional expressions, and he theirs, without any cultural translation. There seemed to be little or no difference between the emotional “language” of Americans and that of Borneans.

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