Emotional Stress: The Dialectics of Nature

Dialectics of Nature-

Preface MARXISM has a twofold bearing on science. In the first place Marxists study science among other human activities. They show how the scientific activities of any society depend on its changing needs, and so in the long run on its productive methods, and how science changes the productive methods, and therefore the whole society. This analysis is needed for any scientific approach to hist...

The nature of stress.

The Emotional Nature of Global Consciousness

Over the past 10 years, the Global Consciousness Project has repeated a basic hypothesis test about 250 times. The hypothesis is that data collected from a globally distributed network of physical random sources during major world events will show non-random structure. The research derives from laboratory work with individuals, exploring possible interactions of human consciousness and emotions...

Dialectics of the Veil

W.E.B. Du Bois's concept of "the veil," first fully articulated in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), contains the most nuanced and powerful theory of race and racism ever developed. Du Bois understands the veil dialectically. This philosophical term "dialectic" refers to a relationship that simultaneously embodies both antagonism and interdependence, that develops over historical time, and that l...

Running Head: NATURE OF THE PRIMARY EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS Affective Neuronal Darwinism: The Nature of the Primary Emotional Systems

Higher brain functions are sculpted on the basis of the mainly “hard-wired” primary emotions through the process of Affective Neural Darwinism. Here we make a tentative new proposal as to the nature of the primary emotional systems, based largely on a combination of the work of Panksepp on affective neuroscience, the work of Stevens, Price and others on evolutionary psychiatry, and data on anim...