Jochen, Are you at all familiar with the New Realists, a group of James' students and associates who wrote a manifesto in 1914 which took of from James in the direction of direct realism.
They spawned two of the most famous American pyschologists, James Gibson and Edward Tolman. n Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > [Original Message] > From: Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 4/5/2010 6:59:35 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Emotions as Adaptation > > Yes, regulation or moderation is probably correct. > The mechanism is the same in everybody, what > differs are the subjective experiences. > > You are right, the "different slice of the same world" > aspect is responsible for subjective experience and > the famous "qualia" problem. William James said > "The peculiarity of our experiences, that they not only > are, but are known, which their 'conscious' quality is > invoked to explain, is better explained by their > relations - these relations themselves being > experiences - to one another." > > Subjective experience seems to depend on individual > memories: each perception is linked to similar perceptions > one has experienced before. Since every person has a > slightly different history resulting in different > memories and experiences, each person has a unique, > individual subjective experience, dependent on his > individual slice of the world. > > -J. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Emotions as Adaptation > > > > Jochen, > > > > I tend to think of emotions as regulations. What makes them vary among > > people is that people live in different worlds (well, different "slices" > > of > > the same world) and have different regulator set points, determined both > > by > > their experience and innate physiology. > > > > I will have a look at the post. > > > > Nick > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
