ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book presents an expanded empiricism, guided by a reasonable, rational, and empirical theory. It provides a provisional theoretical approach to the complexity of affective reality, and the affective experience of reality. The book expresses that the neuroscientific approach provides us with a science of functionality. It focuses on Jung's own stance to affirm complexes as functional neuropsychological systems properties. Functionalism in its most simple expression asserts that mental states are functional states, and not necessarily restricted to biological structures. Mental states are, then, nothing more than functional states of the physical system, which realizes them as mental states. Zubiri's analysis presents a philosophy of reality that accommodates different forms of reality: material-corporeal—non-living and living—mathematical, fictional, scientific, personal, and social. Cognitive sciences, as well as others using neuroimaging, are directed to search for the physical and neurological foundations of the emotional image.
