The Caldron of Consciousness
Motivation, affect and self-organization - An anthology
Published on 14. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-90-272-5136-7 (ISBN)
Description
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)
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[...] when consciousness comes to be described as a caldron [...] something hot must be at the center [...] of attention. The target, of course, is emotion, with its cousin, motivation. -- Aldo Mosca, New School University, New YorkMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5136-7 (9789027251367)
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Ralph D. Ellis | Natika Newton
The Caldron of Consciousness
Motivation, affect and self-organization - An anthology
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Content
1. List of Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. Part I: The Centrality of Emotion; 4. Integrating the Physiological and Phenomenological Dimensions of Affect and Motivation (by Ellis, Ralph D.); 5. Affective Consciousness and the Instinctual Motor System: The Neural Sources of Sadness and Joy (by Panksepp, Jaak); 6. Consciousness, Motivation, and Emotion: Biopsychological Reflections (by Faw, Bill); 7. Conscious Emotion in a Dynamic System: How I Can Know How I Feel (by Newton, Natika); 8. Part II: Toward an Ecological Science of the Affective Sphere; 9. The 'Mind'/'Body' Problem and First-Person Process: Three Types of Concepts (by Gendlin, Eugene T.); 10. Dissolving Differences: How to Understand the Competing Approaches to Human Emotion (by Hardcastle, Valerie Gray); 11. The Effect of Motivation on the Stream of Consciousness: Generalizing from a Neurocomputational Model of Cingulo-frontal Circuits Controlling Saccadic Eye Movements (by Bernstein, Marica); 12. Motivation and Emotion: An Interactive Process Model (by Bickhard, Mark H.); 13. Mind, Brain, and Chaos (by Georgalis, Nicholas); 14. Part III: Emotional Learning and Development; 15. Child Development and the Regulation of Affect and Cognition in Consciousness: A View from Object Relations Theory (by Zachar, Peter); 16. Emotions: The Fetters of Instincts and the Promise of Dynamic Systems (by Backhaus, Gary); 17. Awareness of Emotions: A Neuropsychological Perspective (by Peper, Martin); 18. Index