Dave, Oddly, I agree with most of this. It is an excellent post. I have a question and a comment.
The question: You say: The unpatterned experience, for example, can be called the undifferentiated aesthetic continuum, the pre-conceptual reality, the primary empirical reality, pure experience, pre-reflective experience, immediate experience, noncognitive experience, pre-verbal experience, the immediate flux of life and the cutting edge of experience. I ask: What's left over? What you have here seems like more than 90% of human experience. The rest of experience you describe as, "...static, conceptual, verbal, cognitive, reflective, intelligible and differentiated." Isn't that mostly just the idle chatter our verbal brain does to pass the time while the non-verbal part is living and keeping us alive, driving us to the store, talking to our spouses, washing the dishes... How does you unpatterned experience differ from Freud's unconscious or Gazzanaga's non-conscious? The comment: I like your focus on the affective domain. Affective science has exploded; beginning with Paul Eckman's research in the 1970s. I think you would benefit from the podcast cited below. Keltner has a quirky voice and an enthusiastic style. He worked with Eckman and has done his own research into things like smiling nuns and the blush. Regardless of your philosophical position I think you would be well served by this. I really don't think it conflicts with what you are saying but even if you think it does you would be in a better position to say why. Human Emotion Podcast webcast.berkeley Course - Psych 156 by Dacher Keltner This course will examine two different theoretical perspectives on emotion: (1) the differential emotions approach with its strong evolutionary grounding, and (2) the social constructionist approach. Next, the course will investigate empirical research on many facets of emotion including facial expression, physiology, appraisal, and the lexicon of emotion. Finally, we will consider more specific topics including social interaction, culture, gender, personality, and psychopathology. http://www.learnoutloud.com/Catalog/Self-Development/Emotional-Development/H uman-Emotion-Podcast/19719 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
