The Purpose of Emotion as a Self-Regulatory Sense: Katherine Peil-Kauffman

Katherine Peil-Kauffman's work focuses on understanding and communicating the role of our emotional system as a self-regulatory sense.
Katherine, based at Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity School was an early pioneer of the idea that our felt emotional experience are a fundamental guidance systems. She published papers on this topic before it became more widely-discussed amongst biologists, physicists and neuroscientists, pre-dating the term 'interoceptive active inference' coined by Seth and Friston in 2016.
The basic idea is that our feelings exist for survival - to guide us towards a healthy state. Katherine was very generous in sharing early unique personal family experiences that have influenced her career.
You can find more about Katherine's work at www.emotionals...
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[@red_disc]

Brilliant episode!

[@IanTennant]

I'm pleased you enjoyed it!