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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hello Kate,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you very much for bringing this incredibly important topic to our attention at FIS.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Your contribution aligns with a larger movement aiming to reintegrate emotion as a crucial component of cognition and rationality. And it has
many strong opponents. Despite that, currently, there's a growing consensus among many researchers who are exploring concepts like embodied and enactive cognition (Di Paolo & Thompson) as well as basal cognition (Mike Levin) that you mention. Numerous other
prominent scientists are lending their support to this direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">While reflecting on your Introduction, I remember a particularly intriguing new research paper:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Arthur S. Reber, František Baluška, William B. Miller, and Predrag Slijepčević. (2024). "The sensual cell: Feeling and affect in unicellular
species." BioSystems, Volume 238, 105197, ISSN 0303-2647.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105197__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RE7LOkB8BYjs6AC-bh3IF6cm-OV1LbtXEVtDhlbf9BYuDYgq9yRaQGyFOu26bv8gCoZQJgoa0K8A_D0UrZnBKnK4pjg0rbFx$">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105197</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264724000820__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RE7LOkB8BYjs6AC-bh3IF6cm-OV1LbtXEVtDhlbf9BYuDYgq9yRaQGyFOu26bv8gCoZQJgoa0K8A_D0UrZnBKnK4phf3GztG$">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264724000820</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I'd love to hear your thoughts on this study and how it might relate to the ongoing debates about cognition and emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Looking forward to your insights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",sans-serif;color:black">Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Fis <fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es> on behalf of Katherine Peil <ktpeil@outlook.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 5 April 2024 at 21:07<br>
<b>To: </b>"fis@listas.unizar.es" <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Fis] Emotional Sentience & Information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Hello FIS community,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Katherine Peil Kauffman here, a recent “lurker” following Stuart Kauffman’s (and a bit of Carlos’) offerings on the nature of information. I found it tremendously inspiring and am
now honored to take the discussion in the direction of the <i>role of the emotional system</i> in biological information processing and basal intelligence.
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">To briefly introduce myself, my inquiry into the nature and function of emotion began in clinical psychology, moved through participation in the formation of “positive” psychology,
and ultimately to the search for biological grounds to justify the <i>value system</i> implied in the feel-good feel-bad categories of feeling. An inter-disciplinary complex systems approach culminated in an alternative understanding of the emotional system,
emphasizing its ancient pre-neural origins in genetic, epigenetic, and immune regulation as well as first forms of sensory-motor control.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Central to this new view is that emotion offers a stream of “self-regulatory” information (distinct from “cognition” proper) that has remained opaque to science. Placing emotion
in this deeper biological functional context sheds new light our personal, interpersonal, transcendent experiences. I have attached a brief but condensed synopsis of this work, ending with a link to my personal website that houses papers, talks, and even a
little “self-help” seminar book for “Mastering Emotional Intelligence” I put together some 25 years ago. (There’s a little something for everyone there depending upon how wide or deep the desired dive.)
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">But my hope for this session is to simply set forth these new ideas and focus upon <i>the informational logic</i> that I find to be encoded in emotional qualia. I encourage you to
please take up any strands of inquiry, concern, pushback and/or synergy as we explore this new territory.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">I look forward to a rollicking discussion.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">With special thanks to Pedro and Plaman,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Katherine Peil Kauffman (Call me Kate if you want!)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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