happiness and fear as neural processes. but also in including
aspects of emotional value. The brain integrates bodily perceptions with cognitive appraisals to
experience a wide range of emotions that are crucial for action, and that also heavily influence what
inferences we make and how we make them, for good and ill The good emotional influences are the
values that emotions attach to what we know and what we want to know, enabling us to acquire
beliefs that can be relevant to our goals, rather than the unlimited number of boring and irrelevant
beliefs that we might acquire by observation and inference.