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Title: Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World : Focusing at the Existential Level
Description: Combines phenomenology with the'enactivist'approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World combines embodied consciousness research, existential phenomenology, Gendlin's'focusing'concept, and recent self-organizational work on basic emotions (e.g., Panksepp, Frijda), to explore the way patterns of motivated action shape our interpretations of reality-personally, biologically, and within a sociopolitical community. Like a bat projecting sonar, we understand our world by sensing patterns of resistance against our own self-initiated actions. If hammering is the action, we find'nails'and'non-nails.'Actions in turn express a self-organizing process rooted in motivational structures that presuppose values. These patterns of motivation therefore prefigure the shape of what we think or perceive. But the emotions, feelings,'sensings'through which we discern motivation are never just about what they seem, especially given ample incentives to distortion and self-deception. The'trigger'is the tip of an iceberg. This book works toward a coherent method for getting at the basement level of the action trajectories that motivate exploration, selective attention, and thus interpretations of reality-a crucial question in an age of motivated disinformation.
Authors: Ralph D. Ellis
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Subjects: Motivation (Psychology), Consciousness, Phenomenology
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