意义建构:生成论视角下的情绪理论

Sense-making:The theory of emotion from the perspective of enactivism

情绪与身体的关系问题近年来已经成为一个热门话题。具身认知研究中的一个新取向,生成论(enactionism)认为,认知和情感密不可分,认知和情感统一在有机体意义建构的身体活动之中,身体造就了情感体验。情绪和情感是对情境刺激的一种身体化理解,也是一种行动倾向。情绪和情感并非发生在大脑中的“纯精神事件”,而是超越了头颅和皮肤,延展到环境资源,与外部世界组成紧密联系的整体。生成情绪理论为我们重新认识情绪的本质提供了一个新视角。

Organisms act on the world through bodily actions to seek a meaningful environment conducive to survival.Therefore,cognition is a kind of sense-making.Sense-making is not only cognitive,but also emotional and affective,which are unified in the physical activity of organism’sense-making.The body creates the emotional experience.Emotion and affection are a kind of physical understanding of situational stimulation,as well as a tendency for action.Emotions and affections are not“pure mental events”that take place only in the brain,but extend beyond the head and skin to environmental resources and establish a coupled whole with the external world.The enactivist theory of emotion provides a new perspective for us to reconsider the the essence of emotion.