<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Hi Kate,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks for hosting this FIS session! This is an interesting, difficult, and necessary topic!!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have read and commented (my rough stream of consciousness notes) on your introductory essay, which are given in ALL CAPS and is now posted at THIS link: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RGKt8wTpmvAj5rODFMUOMrNq1GNwRogE/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=110456890836031629456&rtpof=true&sd=true__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!R5SGuMhiHGQa_esPovdmlZ8ToTHEScoaCduCdcMhs7CUOIcidgKyD3xJCHms5KC-2nKfiUk8_AA11eEK$">Comments on Kates Essay</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Despite my interest in this topic, I am unsure how much I will be able to participate in this session, given the needs of my own work. That said, given the difficult nature of the topic, I think your strong/clear guidance here would be of benefit, if we are to find any gain . . . otherwise there may be a bit too much '<span style="font-size:16.47058868408203px">rollicking discussion' and little thoughtful exchange.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Marcus</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM Katherine Peil <<a href="mailto:ktpeil@outlook.com">ktpeil@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Hello FIS community,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><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 style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><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></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><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 style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><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></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">I look forward to a rollicking discussion.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">With special thanks to Pedro and Plaman,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Katherine Peil Kauffman   (Call me Kate if you want!)</span></p>
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