On 24/10/2008, at 5:47 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
>> >> There is radical brain-chemistry change of state under emotions >> >> They have a physical effect on the organism having them that can be >> spotted easily by a 3rd party >> >> Feelings are mildly intellectual sensations of value that we have >> that >> give us a compass for general decision-making (not warefare or >> survival) > > OK, but that's just a matter of degree, a question of how much the > person cares. > So you take feelings to be mild the emotions which are easily > concealed. > >> >> Not the same chemistry involved at all > > How do you know that? OK - I don't 'know' that except in the sense of having the feeling that I read it somewhere - usually New Scientist... I'm sure that I could dig up the appropriate reference for you but I think you should maybe trust my 'feelings' on this ;-) Or maybe I just have this emotional need for that to be true.....you could easily accuse me of that; in fact you're too polite! Feeling=knowing in the sense of recognising (ie a form of perception - the mind's information gathering task; if something fits a recognised, filed pattern we assign it a value so we can extract usefulness ) I am keen to see discussion on this point. Feelings are perception via internal mapping functions (probably memory-related - as in this worked well/this didn't work well) Emotions are needs (serviced by logic in battle such as debate and other forms of information processing) Kim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
