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Body, Mind and Emotions

In this thematic area we are dedicated to the relationship between the physical and the mental, to the reflections gathered around it through scientific research and contemplative practice.

Human beings have (or appear to have) both physical properties and mental properties.
What is the difference between these properties, whether the mental is a subset of the physical or vice versa or, again, whether these states are irreducibly distinct from each other and how they can causally interact with each other.
In the contemporary scientific scenario (from physics after classical mechanics to social sciences and anthropology), many voices question a strong opposition (dualism) of this type between mind and matter and investigate the complex unfolding of these only apparently polar dimensions. In this place we dedicate ourselves to the investigation of this relationship in a transversal path between scientific research and contemplative practice.

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Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (3): body budgeting

The debate confronting the two paradigms partly relates to how we define that which is shared or universal. Even within its constructivist perspective, Barrett accepts the existence of universals. Indeed, his model envisages affects that are constantly fluctuating in valence (positive or negative).
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Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (3): body budgeting

The debate confronting the two paradigms partly relates to how we define that which is shared or universal. Even within its constructivist perspective, Barrett accepts the existence of universals. Indeed, his model envisages affects that are constantly fluctuating in valence (positive or negative).
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Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (3): body budgeting

The debate confronting the two paradigms partly relates to how we define that which is shared or universal. Even within its constructivist perspective, Barrett accepts the existence of universals. Indeed, his model envisages affects that are constantly fluctuating in valence (positive or negative).
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Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (2): basic emotions versus constructivism

The field of affective neuroscience has recently witnessed a vigorous debate between two different approaches to understanding emotions. The first, Basic Emotion Theories, also referred to by various names such as the mechanisms underlying them (emotion circuits, somatic markersand so on), or their supposed nature (nativism vs essentialism)
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Body, Mind and Emotions

Mapping emotions (1): introduction

Charles Hampden-Turner's classic Mapping the Mind (1982) includes sixty mapping models of the human being, of his psyche. His map categories range from historical to religious, to psychoanalytic, existentialist, psychosocial, creative, linguistic-symbolic, cybernetic, structural and “paradigmatic” perspectives. From Taoism, St. Augustine, Blake, Darwin, Marx, Weber and Freud, up to Lacan, Bateson, Chomsky and Varela. For the time, Hampden-Turner's text is extremely sophisticated, rich, and accessible; today his approach desperately needs an update.
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