Silvan Tomkins

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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Co-Implication: Quantum Wave Collapse, AI Token Selection, and Human Learning

For months I have been noticing that the images used to describe how AI works look very similar to the images used to describe quantum wave collapse.  I decided to explore the parallels in a dailogue with ChatGpt. As the dailogue progressed, it provided a unique opportunity to explore the dynamic common to both Ai Token

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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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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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