Stories of Emotional GranularitY
A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience
Yugen
Yugen is a subjective emotional experience in which a person glimpses something of their place in the immensity of a larger reality that is vast beyond words, whether that reality is in the wider cosmos, the depth of time, or something within themselves.
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?
Curiosity
When the call of the emotion of curiosity is followed, comfort is left behind.
Compersion
Compersion is a pleasant feeling that a person can experience when their lover takes another lover. The word compersion was coined in the context of polyamorous relationships.
Friluftsliv
Friluftsliv is a Norwegian word for the feeling of rightness we get when we’re able to escape the architecture of civilized life. It’s an emotion associated with an expansive, unconstructed experience of time and space.