Affect Theory

RE: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”

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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial […]

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Emotional Learning

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Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an

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What Makes What’s Relevant Relevant

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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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dAilogues: Basic Human Instincts

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Basic Human Instincts (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues List the top 10 most commonly experienced by humans behavioral instincts that we are scientifically certain are biologically inherited rather than learned. Disclude reflexes. Top 10 Most Commonly Experienced Human Behavioral Instincts (Biologically Inherited, Not Learned): Survival Instinct: The most fundamental instinct, driving us to

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dAilogues: Maladaptive Learning

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Maladaptive Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Let’s come to a shared understanding of the term “maladaptive learning“. What does the term mean to you?  Maladaptive learning, in my understanding, refers to a learning process where an individual acquires or reinforces behaviors or thought patterns that hinder their ability to adapt effectively to

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dAilogues: Instinctually Learned Emotionality

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Instinctually Learned Emotionality with Gemini Index of other dAilogues In one paragraph followed by six two sentence summarizing bullet points, describe the essence of Sylvan Tomkins’ conceptual components of the affect system and how they interact. Sylvan Tomkins’ theory on the conceptual components of the affect system delves into how our thoughts and emotions are

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dAilogues: Self-Referencing Learning

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Self-Referencing Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Learning always has a reference.  No matter what the learning is about or into, at any given time, there’s some kind of background that is providing the context that learning is stretching from in order to arrive at whatever is being learned. There’s a span happening

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Virtual Emotional Learning

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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

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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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