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Unpleasant seeing| title | Unpleasant seeing |
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| start_date | 2026/02/20 |
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| schedule | 16h45 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle des Actes |
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| summary | When facing something bad, we sometimes close our eyes, turn our head on the opposite side, look away, start singing to cover the noise, put our hands on our ears to stop listening, and so forth. Such behaviours might seem as irrational as killing a messenger informing us that something bad is happening. One might reply that we look away simply to avoid the anxiety that the perceived state of affairs elicits but I want to argue that it is also a way to suppress the unpleasantness of the perceptual experience itself. Here I will develop a notion of minimal affective phenomenology that is more rudimentary than full-blown emotional episodes and that can be intrinsic to visual and auditory experiences. This paper will describe how the detection of objects with negative evolutionary value alters visual processing. As a result, visual experiences are characterized by a distinctive attitude: one becomes visually engaged by the negative objects. This attitude determines the intrinsic unpleasantness of the visual unpleasantness. |
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| responsibles | de Vignemont |
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| submitted | published | | 2026/02/13 11:04 UTC |
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