Stories of Emotional GranularitY
A podcast Exploring the diversity of human experience
Dadirri
Dadirri is a word from the Ngangikurungkurr people of northern Australia. There is no single word in English that can be used as a simple translation of the concept of dadirri. It might be described as an experience of deep listening that comes as a result of patient, silent waiting.
Unmasked
Not all the masks people wear can be tied on with a piece of string. People wear figurative masks as well, making deliberate choices to present themselves in a manner that seems authentic, but doesn’t match what they’re feeling on the inside.
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.