Dr Katherine Peil Kauffman – Reclaiming the Agent in the Machine: Emotional Wisdom and the Physics of Life

For centuries, science and religion have treated our emotional nature as lesser – an inconvenience, flaw, or even sin. From the Cartesian split of mind and body to selfish gene theories, culture has dismissed the wisdom of our feelings.

But emotion is not weakness. It is an ancient sensory system, the grandparent of all higher senses, serving as the interface between hardware and software, physics and choice. Encoded with a simple but profound logic, feelings guide us to align with nature’s laws while exercising creative freedom.

Emotions are not noise but information: feedback signals that keep us in tune with the balances and interdependencies of life. They deliver self-regulating rules that help complex adaptive selves evolve within a self-organizing universe, pushing and pulling us along a path that maximizes our potential.

Yet by ignoring this system, we’ve allowed politics, media, and competition to hijack our emotional control loop, leaving us reactive rather than self-authored. To reclaim agency, we must restore the authority of direct emotional experience.

This webinar will explore:

• How emotions act as a feedback system, teaching us what to create and avoid.
• Why the agent in the machine metaphor restores the missing subjectivity in science and culture.
• How emotion provides the animating power and guiding information for coherence and harmony in nature.
• A new view of emotion – not fallen or flawed, but profound intelligence woven into physics, biochemistry, and lived experience.

Katherine’s mission is to reacquaint you with the deep logic of your feeling system to reclaim the dignity of embodiment, the authority of experience, and your birthright of emotional sentience. In doing so, we restore our agency, our creativity, and our unique role in life’s unfolding order.