Curious emotions: roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
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1. Verfasser: Ellis, Ralph D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. 2005
Schriftenreihe:Advances in consciousness research v. 61
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Curious Emotions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Preconscious emotional intentionality; 2. Motivated attention in action; 3. Non-consummatory motivations; 4. Homeostasis, extropy, and boundary needs as grounding specific emotions; 5. Varieties of extended self and personality; 6. Learning about emotions through the arts; 7. Dynamical systems and emotional agency; Conclusion; References; Index; The series Advances in Consciousness Research
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, th
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