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Podcast: The Cosmic Library
Episode: 3.2 Mosaic Mosaic: Laws of Emotion
Description: âWe regulate each otherâs nervous systems,â says the neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett in this chapter of âMosaic Mosaic.â âWe are the caretakers of each otherâs nervous systems.â So feelingâand thinkingâand the regulations of law join together; the idea that laws exist apart from our nervous systems, our feelings, doesnât quite work, in this sense.The poet Peter Cole here describes an emotional state associated with the language of rules and ritual in the Hebrew Bible, and in Leviticus particularly. He says, âI was just totally spellbound by the choreography of sacrifice.â And the novelist Joshua Cohen...