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Emotional introspection.
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One of the most vivid aspects of consciousness is the experience of emotion, yet this topic is given relatively little attention within consciousness studies. Emotions are crucial, for they provide quick and motivating assessments of value, without which ... (Full abstract text below) Published 2002Dec
in Journal: Conscious Cogn
(Language : eng)
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1. Conscious Cogn.
2002 Dec;11(4):666-87
Emotional introspection.
Seager W
seager@utsc.utoronto.ca
One of the most vivid aspects of consciousness is the experience of emotion, yet this topic is given relatively little attention within consciousness studies. Emotions are crucial, for they provide quick and motivating assessments of value, without which action would be misdirected or absent. Emotions also involve linkages between phenomenal and intentional consciousness. This paper examines emotional consciousness from the standpoint of the representational theory of consciousness (RTC). Two interesting developments spring from this. The first is the need for the representation of value, which is distinctive of emotional experience. The second is an extension of RTC's theory of introspection to emotional states, revealing why emotional consciousness is so often introspective even though introspective abilities are not needed to experience emotions, and also explaining why introspection of emotional states is so much less reliable than that of other states of consciousness.
PMID : 12470630 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]
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| First Name | LastName | Initials |
| William | Seager | W |
Affiliation: seager@utsc.utoronto.ca
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