Feelings - TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE

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Can you unpack in detail the crux of Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s arguments as it relates to the origins, structures, mechanism and adaptive developmental and evolutionary functions of emotional systems, from simple unicellular to multicellular organisms including humans?
Can you elaborate some more on her concept of emotional sentience and what role it plays in self-preservation and self-development?
What is the difference between affect, mood, emotions and feelings in terms of qualia, temporospatial characteristics, brain structures and connectivities, dynamic adaptive functions, and whether they are holarchic in nature?
Can you unpack some more the differences between affect and feelings and how this may inform the debate between Mark Solms and Lisa Feldman Barrett?
Given that we can individually and collectively shape and are shaped by our individual experiences, context and interpretations which we can become aware of and recognise, what does this now all mean for our individual and collective lives?
What role does the subconscious and their shadows play here?
Given the critical role played by our individual and collective emotional sentience, can you trace the historical and cultural root causes of its maladaptive or arrested developments?
“What affective work do you think will be necessary for people to choose a path of relational maturity, sobriety, humility, discernment, and accountability in which we can face storms together without hurting (or killing) each other or further harming (or fully destroying) the planet and other nonhuman beings? What do you feel is necessary now for this to start to happen?”
Can you construct a list of possible blog titles for an article reflecting all we have learned?
Can you construct a vibrant image summarizing the core of the ideas here?

The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular existence and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. The Strange Order of Things is a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture.