Curious Emotions: Roots Of Consciousness And Personality In Motivated Action

Curious Emotions Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness. Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial Board David Chalmers Steven Macknik Australian National University Barrow Neurological Institute Gordon G. Globus George Mandler University of California at Irvine University of California at San Diego Ray Jackendoff Susana Martinez-Conde Brandeis University Barrow Neurological Institute Christof Koch John R. Searle California Institute of Technology University of California at Berkeley Stephen Kosslyn Petra Stoerig Harvard University Universität Düsseldorf Earl Mac Cormac Duke University Volume 61 Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action by Ralph D. Ellis Curious Emotions Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action Ralph D. Ellis Clark Atlanta University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam
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Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ralph D. Ellis Curious Emotions : Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action / Ralph D. Ellis. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 61) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Consciousness. 2. Emotions. 3. Motivation (Psychology) 4. Selforganizing systems. I. Title. II. Series. BF311.E483 2005 152.4--dc22 isbn 90 272 5197 5 (Eur.) / 1 58811 628 X (US) (Hb; alk. paper) 2004062771 © 2005 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Introduction 1. The enactive approach to affective intentionality 1 2. Some preliminary predictions of enactivism 9 3. The “curious” emotions 14 4. Conceptualizing action versus reaction 18 5. Plan of the book 21 Chapter 1 Preconscious emotional intentionality 1. Motivation, conscious emotion, and unconscious emotion 27 2. The murkiness of emotional intentionality 31 3. Aims, objects, triggers, and symbolization-vehicles 33 4. The roles of sensation, interoception, and sensorimotor action imagery 42 Chapter 2 Motivated attention in action: How emotion creates conscious intentionality 1. Linear versus dynamical causal sequences in the brain 52 2. Conflicting theories with conflicting empirical predictions 57 3. The P300 ERP as an operational definition of perceptual consciousness 63 4. How the Mack and Rock data relate to the two types of hypotheses 63 5. The paradox of early and late selection 69 6. Attention and conscious processing 72 7. Further i