Stories of Emotional GranularitY

A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience

There Is No One Singing This Song
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

There Is No One Singing This Song

An artificially generated song asks us to listen without offering anyone to actually listen to. A technology that can be used to create emotionally-moving media without requiring the work of any human capable of feeling emotion is a tool for the mass production of emotional manipulation.

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Guilt and Shame
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Guilt and Shame

When what we do and even who we are feels wrong, we have entered the territory of guilt and shame. How are these emotions distinct from each other?

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Grounded
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Grounded

When the flow of life puts everything up in the air, we seek connection with solid foundations.

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Season 4 of Stories of Emotional Granularity coming Soon
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Season 4 of Stories of Emotional Granularity coming Soon

In this season, we will confront anger, but also reflect on the more vulnerable emotion of bewilderment. We will hear from people coping with imposter syndrome and the playful feeling of humor. We will discuss the emotions of humble humanity, confront guilt and anger, jealousy and envy. We will face the loss of feeling bereft. We will address our grief, and come to the emotion of the embrace of death even as we continue to live.

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Happiness
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Happiness

Perhaps happiness is a feeling that just happens to happen, whether we deserve it or not.

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Love
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Love

What is love, if people can feel love for so many different things in so many different ways? How are all of these different kinds of love still love?

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Bonus EpIsode - On Curiosity And Generative AI
Jonathan Cook Jonathan Cook

Bonus EpIsode - On Curiosity And Generative AI

Generative AI models such as ChatGPT are celebrated as superior sentient beings when they produce bad imitations of basic human work. At the same time, complex human consciousness is dismissed as flat. What are the consequences of this lopsided cultural interpretation of technology, and what are the implications for the emotion of curiosity?

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