Stories of Emotional GranularitY

A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience

Jonathan Cook 2/6/24 Jonathan Cook 2/6/24

SehnSucht

Sehnsucht is a specific kind of longing in which a person feels a sense of incompleteness while feeling that what they are looking is out there, hauntingly close and yet just beyond the ability to grasp it.

Jonathan Cook 1/26/24 Jonathan Cook 1/26/24

Resources of Emotional Granularity

This week on Stories of Emotional Granularity, we’ll do something different. I’ll share with you some of the resources I have used to identify some of the many emotions that I’ve listed on my web site and begun to describe here on the podcast.

Jonathan Cook 5/2/23 Jonathan Cook 5/2/23

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?

Jonathan Cook 4/9/23 Jonathan Cook 4/9/23

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?