Emotions Qualia And Consciousness

Author : Alfred Kaszniak
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814493871

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Emotions, Qualia, And Consciousness by Alfred Kaszniak Pdf

The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside the conscious awareness. Primary types of emotions are found in animals, while secondary, more complex types are involved in interpersonal relationships. Emotions both influence genetic repair mechanisms of individuals and are responsible for group behavior. Many scholars and scientists believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion.

Author : Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027294616

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Consciousness & Emotion by Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton Pdf

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

Author : Josefa Toribio,Andy Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136794087

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Consciousness and Emotion in Cognitive Science by Josefa Toribio,Andy Clark Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X004591659

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Affective Qualia and the Subjective Dimension by Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton Pdf

Author : Antonio R. Damasio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0156010755

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The Feeling of what Happens by Antonio R. Damasio Pdf

The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasio's new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. A hymn to the possibilities of human existence, a magnificent work of ingenious science, a gorgeously written book, The Feeling of What Happens is already being hailed as a classic.

Author : Lisa Feldman Barrett,Paula M. Niedenthal,Piotr Winkielman
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781593854584

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Emotion and Consciousness by Lisa Feldman Barrett,Paula M. Niedenthal,Piotr Winkielman Pdf

Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly edited chapters address such compelling questions as how bodily responses contribute to conscious experience, whether "unconscious emotion" exists, how affect is transmitted from one person to another, and how emotional responses are produced in the brain. Bringing a new level of coherence to lines of inquiry that often remain disparate, the book identifies key, cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets forth a cogent agenda for future research.

Author : Ralph D. Ellis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9027251975

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Curious Emotions by Ralph D. Ellis Pdf

Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on endogenous motivations to engage certain levels of energy and complexity. Thus understanding personality, cognition, consciousness and action requires examining the workings of dynamical systems applied to emotional processes in living organisms. If an object's meaning depends on its action affordances, then understanding intentionality in emotion or cognition requires exploring why emotion is the bridge between action and representational processes such as thought or imagery; and this requires integrating phenomenology with neurophysiology. The resulting viewpoint, "enactivism," entails specific new predictions, and suggests that emotions are about the self-initiated actions of dynamical systems, not reactive "responses" to external events; consciousness is more about motivated anticipation than reaction to inputs. (Series A)

Author : Georg Northoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1588114171

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Philosophy of the Brain by Georg Northoff Pdf

"What is the mind?""What is the relationship between brain and mind?"These are common questions. But "What is the brain?" is a rare question in both the neurosciences and philosophy. The reason for this may lie in the brain itself: Is there a "brain problem"?In this fresh and innovative book, Georg Northoff demonstrates that there is in fact a "brain problem." He argues that our brain can only be understood when its empirical functions are directly related to the modes of acquiring knowledge, our epistemic abilities and inabilities. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific data and philosophical theories, he provides an empirical-epistemic definition of the brain. Northoff reveals the basic conceptual confusion about the relationship between mind and brain that has so obstinately been lingering in both neuroscience and philosophy. He subsequently develops an alternative framework where the integration of the brain within body and environment is central. This novel approach plunges the reader into the depths of our own brain. The "Philosophy of the Brain" that emerges opens the door to a fascinating world of new findings that explore the mind and its relationship to our very human brain. (Series A)

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Christopher S. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139481670

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Consciousness by Christopher S. Hill Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive theory of consciousness. The initial chapter distinguishes six main forms of consciousness and sketches an account of each one. Later chapters focus on phenomenal consciousness, consciousness of, and introspective consciousness. In discussing phenomenal consciousness, Hill develops the representational theory of mind in new directions, arguing that all awareness involves representations, even awareness of qualitative states like pain. He then uses this view to undercut dualistic accounts of qualitative states. Other topics include visual awareness, visual appearances, emotional qualia, and meta-cognitive processing. This important work will interest a wide readership of students and scholars in philosophy of mind and cognitive science.

Author : Mario Beauregard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027295866

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Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain by Mario Beauregard Pdf

During the last decade, the study of emotional self-regulation has blossomed in a variety of sub-disciplines belonging to either psychology (developmental, clinical) or the neurosciences (cognitive and affective). Consciousness, Emotional Self-Regulation and the Brain gives an overview of the current state of this relatively new scientific field. Several areas are examined by some of the leading theorists and researchers in this emerging domain. Most chapters seek to either present theoretical and developmental perspectives about emotional self-regulation (and dysregulation), provide cutting edge information with regard to the neural basis of conscious emotional experience and emotional self-regulation, or expound theoretical models susceptible of explaining how healthy individuals are capable of consciously and voluntarily changing the neural activity underlying emotional processes and states. In addition, a few chapters consider the capacity of human consciousness to volitionally influence the brain’s electrical activity or modulate the impact of emotions on the psychoneuroendocrine-immune network. This book will undoubtedly be useful to scholars and graduate students interested in the relationships between self-consciousness, emotion, the brain, and the body. (Series B)

Author : Halbert Hains Britan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Emotions
ISBN : NWU:35556001296284

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The Affective Consciousness by Halbert Hains Britan Pdf

Author : Alexandra Zinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 3897857049

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Emotions Hold the Self Together by Alexandra Zinck Pdf

Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780316439480

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Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett Pdf

"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a wealth of information from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence. Our current theories about conscious life-of people, animal, even robots--are transformed by the new perspectives found in this book.

Author : Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027251363

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The Caldron of Consciousness by Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton Pdf

These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function. Computationally registering/processing sensory signals (e.g. in the occipital lobe or area V4) by itself does not result in perceptual consciousness, which requires subcortical structures such as amygdala, hypothalamus, and brain stem. This interdisciplinary anthology attempts to understand the complexity of emotional intentionality; why the role of motivation in self-organizing processes is crucial in distinguishing conscious from unconscious processes; how emotions account for 'agency'; and how an adequate approach to emotion-motivation can address the traditional mind-body problem through a holistic understanding of the conscious, behaving organism. (Series B)