Affect Theory

What Calabrese and Tomkins Might Say: Meta-tations

Note: this chat uses “proxies” AI models that have built from the visible, documented work of specific persons. It does not imitate their speech patterns, personality, or personal identity. Instead, it reconstructs the pattern of how they think – the distinctions they draw, the questions they ask, the frameworks they use, the metaphors they favor, […]

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Tomkins and Calabrese on Hormesis Psychology Paper

Edward Calabrese shared a newly released paper on hormesis and psychology. Hormesis-psychology-1 What Silvan Tomkins might say: You have here, in effect, a psychological hormesis study: not of radiation or toxins, but of ordinary parental misattunement-unresponsiveness, detachment, intrusiveness, psychological control-and its impact on children’s emotional life. The authors show that moderate levels of such adversity

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Dialogues in dAilogues: Tomkins and Calabrese – Affects and Hormetics

After loading the main dAilogue primer, I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions, and instructed ChatGpt to participate in the dAilogue in a way representing both of their minds and mental models.  I then asked: How would a dialogue between Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese translate affect theory into hormesis and hormesis

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Unlearning Pain with Tomkins and Calabrese

This dAilogue began as an exploration of pain but led to very interesting reframings of how our affective hebbian learning works and the learned cause of a great deal of our pain. Source dAilogue: https://chatgpt.com/share/691f9dc5-05a8-8008-9f82-d3f8f01b96f4 After loading the main dAilogue primer I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions and instructed ChatGpt to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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