To take the by now stereotypical action for me, here’s a connection to Buddhism. There are a few passages in the Buddhist Canon where someone comes to the Buddha and asks for a really simple practice that will nonetheless take them far. One of the more interesting answers is that continuous ‘mindfulness of vedana’ will get you there. Vedana corresponds to the concept of valence in that it is posited as the positive, negative, or neutral quality of mental objects that appears to untrained perception as already bundled together with those mental objects.
To take the by now stereotypical action for me, here’s a connection to Buddhism. There are a few passages in the Buddhist Canon where someone comes to the Buddha and asks for a really simple practice that will nonetheless take them far. One of the more interesting answers is that continuous ‘mindfulness of vedana’ will get you there. Vedana corresponds to the concept of valence in that it is posited as the positive, negative, or neutral quality of mental objects that appears to untrained perception as already bundled together with those mental objects.