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    A teleosemantic approach threatens the truly embodied cha... — Carmelics
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    A teleosemantic approach threatens the truly embodied character of a James-Lange style theory of emotions.

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    • 1.James-Lange theory grounds emotional content in proprioceptive and interoceptive bodily feedback loops, not in abstract functional correlations.
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    • 2.Teleosemantics, as developed by Millikan, defines representational content via selection history, which is indifferent to the somatic substrate carrying that history.
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    • 3.When content is decoupled from somatic substrate, the James-Lange explanatory priority of body-over-feeling is dissolved into mere implementation detail.
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    • 1.Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis demonstrates that bodily states are constitutively, not merely causally, involved in generating emotional meaning.
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    • 2.A teleosemantic account that permits disembodied vehicles to carry identical representational content entails that somatic markers are replaceable without loss of emotional content, directly contradicting Damasio.
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    • 3.If somatic markers are replaceable, the distinctive phenomenal character that James-Lange assigns to felt bodily change is demoted from constitutive to merely contingent.
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    • 1.On a teleosemantic account, what a state represents is determined by its function of correlating with a core relational theme.
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    • 2.Any non-embodied vehicle — such as a disembodied judgment — that has the function of correlating with a core relational theme would represent that theme just as well as an embodied vehicle does.
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    • 3.If non-embodied vehicles can represent core relational themes equally well, embodiment is not essential to the representational role emotions play.
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    Prinz (2004) used to think that emotions represent core relational themes because they have the function of correlating with them, but in his recent work he has changed his mind. Schargel and Prinz (2018) have argued that a teleosemantic approach is a threat to the truly embodied character of a theory of emotions in the James-Lange mold, the approach they favor. This is because any non-embodied vehicle—e.g., a disembodied judgment—that has the function of correlating with a core relational theme
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