Affect Theory

What Makes What’s Relevant Relevant

We can’t use human ways of thinking about knowing to explain AI’s process of tokening. AI’s have semantically arbitrary, mechanical rather semantic, meaning space extent limits. An AI user’s bandwidth limits (technologically or customer type) affect the “depth” of context informing the tokening. That’s what makes AIs seem so absurd – as if they are […]

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Virtual Emotional Learning

Note: Don’t miss the Instagram video at the end of the post. If you are in a hurry start there (click here). A fascinating conversation (summarized below) led to asking whether children afflicted with facial paralysis, therefore lacking the somatic experience of facial affect display, would have unique emotional learning differences. Here is G-Ai’s (Google’s

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Thinking About How Shame Works

This dailogue explores how the affect shame, the neurobiological precursor to the emotion of shame, seems to work.  Background: I am grateful to have been mentored into learning about shame by my dear friend, the epistemological philosopher and affect therapist, Gary David PhD. Gary is a proponent and practitioner of the work of the late

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