Where Does Fatigue Come From? Anna Kuppuswamy on a Setting, Not a Place

Where Does Fatigue Come From? Anna Kuppuswamy on a Setting, Not a Place

Fatigue is universal and yet hard to define. In her talk, Anna Kuppuswamy argues that it is neither a simple bodily sensation nor an emotion, and that brain imaging shows something diffuse, non-specific, direction-inconsistent, and entangled with arousal. Fatigue, she suggests, is not a place but a setting—like gain.