>IN regards to what was said below, well I don't believe we are that far
>with Art and connection with the biomedical sciences. Imaging for example
>can now at high, no longer super great expense tell one, kind of,
>bearably good, what emotional state someone is in. Still lots of guessing
>going on.
Could you clarify? What do you mean by "imaging"? Do you mean, e.g. facial
expression or brain imaging?
If you mean we can examine images of brain activation, then I find this
statement doubtful. Can you cite specific studies where emotional state has
been reliably identified by examining patterns of brain activation? I'm
aware of some work about Right and Left brain dominance, but that is only
about positive and negative affect (I forget how affective polarity lines
up with R/L brain).
Independently of this, there has been quite a bit of work on facial
expression. But people can, of course, mask facial expression.
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