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Understanding how emotions emerge is difficult without determining
what characteristic of the trigger actually triggers them. Knowing
whether emotional experiences self-stabilize is difficult without
remembering what other processes are set in play as the emotion
emerges. It is not clear that positive feedback is required for emotion
emergence or that an attractor model captures well what is happening
when an emotion arises.
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