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A concept is a prescription for action

Concepts are not abstract labels but prescriptions for action: how you categorize a state (e.g., fatigue as a vaccine response versus the flu versus depression) determines what you do next and what you feel next, sending you down a different behavioral trajectory of life.

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Speaker

Lisa Feldman Barrett

Evidence Quote

these frames are not abstract things they dictate what you do next a concept at its base right at its core is a prescription for action so what you do when you understand ... your fatigue as a covid response to the vaccine response versus the flu versus depression what you do next is very different

Source

247 - Constructing MindsMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:52:39 AM

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