Consciousness & emotion : agency, conscious choice, and selective perception / edited by Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ellis, Ralph D.

Newton, Natika.

Series:

Consciousness & emotion ; v. 1.

Consciousness & emotion ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions and cognition.

Intentionalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 330 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Consciousness and emotion

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., c2005.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues: I. Emotional influences on perception and thought II. Agency and choice III. Agency and moral value.

Contents:

Consciousness &amp

Emotion

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Author addresses

Introduction

Part I. Emotional influences on perception and thought

Part II. Agency and choice

Part III. Agency and moral value

References

I. Emotional influences on perception and thought

Subjective prerequisites for the construction of an objective world

Perceptgeneses

Adaptive serials

Self-nonself integration

The tests

Procedure and subjects

Results

Conclusions

P-phase to C-phase interaction

Participants

Conclusion

Perceptgenesis, a closer look

Adaptation and defense

Creativity

Creativity, defense, and anxiety

An experiment with flight phobia

Discussion

Energetic effects of emotions on cognitions

1. Neurobiological Perspectives

Distinctions between affective and cognitive structures

Neurobiological aspects of affective-cognitive interactions

Basic emotional systems

2. Psychosocial perspectives

Converging neurobiological and psychosocial findings

General and specific operator-effects of emotions on cognition

The energetic dimension of emotions

Non-linear aspects of emotion-cognition interactions

3. Discussion and resulting working hypotheses

4. Conclusions

Notes

Negative affective states' effects on perception of affective pictures

Method

Acknowledgements

Annex 1

Neural development

1. Introduction

2. Neural Darwinism

3. The affective connection

4. Implications of affective neural Darwinism

4.1. Developmental and functional issues

4.2. Primary and secondary emotions

4.3. Psychological issues

4.4. Evolutionary issues

4.5. Language

4.6. Genetic issues

4.7. Neurological issues.

4.8. Potential outcomes

5. Relation to the immune system

6. Implications of the immune system link

7. Conclusion

Consciousness, emotion and face

Objectives and hypotheses

Methodology

Data analysis

Note

Phenomenal consciousness, sense impressions, and the logic of 'what it's like'

What it's like: The vulgar and the philosophical

Sellarsian sense impressions

The function of `what it's like'

Knowing what it's like

II. Agency and choice

Exposing the covert agent

Bodily intentionality

Neuromuscular basis of bodily intentionality

Panksepp's emotional circuits

Motivated behavior in the rat

Seeking system activates preparation

Emotionally motivated preparing to interact

Higher levels depend on lower

Propioceptive imaging

Selective fusimotor activity

Ascending propioception during peripheral inhibition

No motor imaging without involving the body

Appendix

Doing it and meaning it

Introduction: A working hypothesis

Rejecting two potential counterexamples to meaningful consciousness

Meaning what you do and doing what you mean: The enactive approach

Enaction and the importance of perspective

An appeal to evolution, a problem and a solution

The centrality of goals

Conceptions of goals extant in psychology

An enactive framework for understanding goals

What it means for consciousness

Acknowledgments

Anticipatory consciousness, Libet's veto and a close-enough theory of free will

The routinization of behaviour

Indirect conscious control through the biasing of attentional resources.

Conscious attention, detached from and unable to control real-time responses, focuses on events that will occur within a time frame to which it can react

Further implications of this theory for Libet's notion of the veto

Appendix: The clinical neuroanatomy of volitional and automatic action

Freud's phenomenology of the emotions

A definition of phenomenology

Freud's unconscious mental occurrences

Relevancies from James

An intrinsic theory of inner awareness

Close examination of relevant texts

Verbal expressions of self and emotions

1. Peircean semiotics and its application to Alexithymia

2. A taxonomy of self and emotions and its implementation by SSWC

3. Two empirical studies of SSWC

Study 1

Study 2

General discussion

4. Application to individual differences

5. Summary and conclusion

III. Agency and moral value

Apt affect

The Varieties of Religious Experience considered from the perspective of James's account of the stream of consciousness

2. Contra the Intellectualists

3. Abstract objects and the sense of reality

4. The nature of the sense of reality in the evident absence of sensory presence

5. In the distinctively religious sphere of experience

6. Mystical experience

7. Final comment

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156892

9781282156890

1282156896

9789027294616

9027294615

OCLC:

78683161