I appreciate this perspective. I actually didn’t think about the diversity averse sense that the word can perpetuate. Consciousness is a great umbrella term that captures much. I’m fond of affect. It denotes something broad which supports subjective exp and enable obj measurement.

Perhaps a hypothesis is what bridges them? Nice quote🙏

I agree that those are arguments that still require fleshing out. I think my original point, that you needn’t be a strict physicalist about these things to hold Pankseppian account of emotional generators, is still possible. I will have a look at Barrett’s model, thank you for sharing!

but cant do so, yet. I also appreciate that that’s the gulf Panksepp’s work is trying to overcome. Perhaps I’m doing the topic an injustice here. Diane O’Leary has written some compelling papers on the topic, especially as it pertains to practice of medicine.

I wouldn’t say a flaw, per se. Simply that some dualist theories allow for materialist starting point (e.g., property dualism or naturalistic dualism). Non-reductive physicalists still have to contend with fact that they want to account for certain qualities at biological/physiological level