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Title The caldron of consciousness : motivation, affect, and self-organization : an anthology / edited by Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 276 pages)
Series Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 16
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 16. 1381-589X
Contents THE CALDRON OF CONSCIOUSNESS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: The Centrality of Emotion; Chapter 1. Integrating the Physiological and Phenomenological Dimensions of Affect and Motivation; Chapter 2. Affective Consciousness and the Instinctual Motor System: The Neural Sources of Sadness and Joy; Chapter 3. Consciousness, Motivation, and Emotion: Biopsychological Reflections; Chapter 4. Conscious Emotion in a Dynamic System: How Can Know How Feel; PART II: Toward an Ecological Science of the Affective Sphere
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Consciousness.
Emotions.
Motivation (Psychology)
Self-organizing systems.
Ego (Psychology)
Self.
Consciousness
Ego
Emotions
Motivation
emotion.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
Self
Ego (Psychology)
Consciousness
Emotions
Motivation (Psychology)
Self-organizing systems
Form Electronic book
Author Ellis, Ralph D.
Newton, Natika.
LC no. 00033720
ISBN 0585461201
9780585461205
9027251363
9789027251367
1556191960
9781556191961
902729996X
9789027299963
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9781282254909
9786612254901
6612254904