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    Challenges→Although impressions are involuntary in the moment, they are subject to control in the long run through repeated assent and refusal.

    Contemporary neuroscience and Humean psychology establish that evaluative impressions are largely driven by affective processes that operate below the threshold of deliberate assent.

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    Affective processes(as used in philosophy of mind)
    Mental processes related to emotions and feelings—the way your mood, fear, joy, or disgust influences your thinking without you necessarily noticing it.
    Below the threshold of deliberate assent(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Happening automatically and unconsciously, without you consciously deciding or agreeing to it—outside your conscious awareness and control.
    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    Evaluative impressions(as used in ethics and philosophy of mind)
    Your immediate gut feelings or reactions about whether something is good, bad, right, or wrong—before you think it through consciously.

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    Humean psychology(as used in philosophy of mind and ethics)
    A theory of human nature based on the ideas of philosopher David Hume, emphasizing that our desires and emotions (rather than pure reason) drive most of what we do.
    Neuroscience(as the field being discussed)
    The scientific study of how the brain and nervous system work, including the physical structures and chemical processes involved in thinking and behavior.

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