Simulation (How Emotions are Made)

3-Second Blueprint (English)

1. Sensory and motor cortices fire preemptively before stimulus arrival, synthesizing past experiences into top-down simulations.
2. Incoming sensory signals act as prediction error feedback, either updating the brain's internal model or getting suppressed.
3. Emotions emerge as predictive causal inferences explaining bodily allostatic arousal—such as heart-rate spikes—in context.