Interoception senses the body's internal milieu and evaluates goals, shaping attention and affect and including taste and smell as partly interoceptive.
Affect attaches to meaningful, contextualized goals shaped by sensory and semantic information, and affect-management policies govern goal pursuit and relinquishment.
Contextualized goals continually update in the brain, shaped by sensory and semantic inputs, and organize affect through shifting affect-management policies.
Affect management is anticipatory, multifaceted, contextual, and continuously shapes decision-making via interoceptive, exteroceptive, proprioceptive, and meaning-making processes.