Part of my research involves teaching machines to read emotion from faces, voices, and text.
Food tracking can be useful for some people and stressful for others. A small study does not show that calorie counting trains the nervous system into hypervigilance.
Studies link coffee consumption with differences in the gut microbiome. That does not mean people drink coffee for their microbes or that those microbes control the brain.
Last year, I was at the International Symposium on Resilience Research in Mainz, hosted with the involvement of the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research.
Fear at height depends on visual cues, balance, perceived control, and context. An astronaut's experience illustrates the difference, but it does not replace clinical evidence about acrophobia.
On my 27th birthday, I watched a film about the sun dying. Project Hail Mary does not waste time on sentiment about this.
At some point in the last few years, using a chatbot to process something emotionally difficult stopped feeling unusual.
I have walked through a lot of difficult periods in my life. Not metaphorically.
