Afectividad y conciencia: la experiencia subjetiva de los valores biológicos

Abstract

The paper aims is to propose a theoretical model from affective neuroscience to treat the problem of roots and functions of the conscious experience, the paper begins with a short discussion about the epistemological, ontological and methodological problem that implies to build a subjectivity explanation, understood this as the core and basic characteristic of the consciousness. It is continued with the presentation of some affective neuroscience principles, in especial is explored the Jaak Panksepp approach, from this point of view, the affective neuroscience result to be a relevant and updated conceptual framework to treat with the nature of conscious experience. The paper remarks the primordial, basic and biologic role of the affective process, which lets the autoorganization of the neurodynamics parameters, from which goes emerging new patrons of organic activity that result in the different subjectivities feelings, this subjective experiences lets to organism fell the biological values of its action in relation with the environmental challenges. In the last part, are presented some considerations, is discussed about the fortuneless use of unconsciousness concept, the contribution to bioethical problems, and the implications of this approximation on the society in general and the psychology in particular.