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clarified that indeed emotions don't only signal a conflict

I think it does imply a conflict. I think everyEvery emotional sensation — including urges — arises from problems insensation—including urges—arises to provide feedback to our consciousness about how a particular problem (in the Popperian sense: two or more incompatible theories in conflict.↵
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Forconflict) is or isn’t progressing.↵
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For example, consider hunger. One theory (Drive A) is that we don’t want to be hungry, while another signals that we *are* hungry (from ephemeral sense data (which could itself be viewed as a Drive, though that’s not important here)). The conflict between these theories produces the urge — in this case, the sensation of hunger.
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