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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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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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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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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