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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness
For decades we have witnessed the emergence of a media age of
illusion that is based on the principles of physics-the
multidimensionality, immateriality, and non-locality of the unified
field of energy and information-as a virtual reality. As a result,
a new paradigm shift has reframed the cognitive unconscious of
individuals and collectives and generated a worldview in which
mediated illusion prevails. Exploring the Collective Unconscious in
a Digital Age investigates the cognitive significance of an altered
mediated reality that appears to have all the dimensions of a
dreamscape. This book presents the idea that if the digital
media-sphere proves to be structurally and functionally analogous
to a dreamscape, the Collective Unconscious researched by Carl Jung
and the Cognitive Unconscious researched by George Lakoff are
susceptible to research according to the parameters of hard
science. This pivotal research-based publication is ideally
designed for use by psychologists, theorists, researchers, and
graduate-level students studying human cognition and the influence
of the digital media revolution.
A proposal that extends the enactive approach developed in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind to issues in affective
science. In The Feeling Body, Giovanna Colombetti takes ideas from
the enactive approach developed over the last twenty years in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind and applies them for the
first time to affective science-the study of emotions, moods, and
feelings. She argues that enactivism entails a view of cognition as
not just embodied but also intrinsically affective, and she
elaborates on the implications of this claim for the study of
emotion in psychology and neuroscience. In the course of her
discussion, Colombetti focuses on long-debated issues in affective
science, including the notion of basic emotions, the nature of
appraisal and its relationship to bodily arousal, the place of
bodily feelings in emotion experience, the neurophysiological study
of emotion experience, and the bodily nature of our encounters with
others. Drawing on enactivist tools such as dynamical systems
theory, the notion of the lived body, neurophenomenology, and
phenomenological accounts of empathy, Colombetti advances a novel
approach to these traditional issues that does justice to their
complexity. Doing so, she also expands the enactive approach into a
further domain of inquiry, one that has more generally been
neglected by the embodied-embedded approach in the philosophy of
cognitive science.
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