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September 12, 2025Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences12 citationsOpen Access

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

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PRPaul B. RaineyMHMichael Hochberg

Key Points

  • Maps of bodily sensations linked to emotions reveal insights into human emotional experience and responses.
  • The study highlights how emotions influence both behavior and physiological states during crucial interactions.
  • A unique self-report method was utilized to examine the interplay between consciousness and emotional sensations.
  • These findings suggest potential pathways for integrating human emotional feedback with AI technologies.

Abstract

Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving ...Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In ...

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Rainey et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d46cbf31b076d99fa68b9ehttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509122122
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