Persons and their affective experiences. Comment on “The affective grounds of the mind. The affective pertinentization (APER) model” by salvatore et al.

In their paper, Sergio Salvatore and his colleagues propose a new theoretical model of meaning-making, the Affective Pertinentization Model (APER) [12]. APER designates a person’s constant and permanent affective multimodal, physiologically anchored, response to their changing environment. According to the model, this body-mind affective field is the ground for sense-making, and thus guides – enables and constraints – thinking and reasoning. APER can be described along a series of dimensions still to be defined, which then become also the dimensionality of sense-making. These affects emerge through ontogenesis as the person interacts with their environment; more basic affects may remain the kernel of more complex and differentiated ones, and they are shaped by lrager contextual meaning-dynamics, such as the political atmosphere within a country. APER has as implication that one does not “have an
effect”, one is embedded in their affective fields.