Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice and Selective Percpetion

Consciousness and Emotion: Agency, Conscious Choice and Selective Percpetion
By Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: 2004-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9027232288
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789027232281
Binding: Hardcover


The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion 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 constitoents 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 Pahiavan, 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

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