On 25/10/2008, at 8:10 AM, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>> 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
On 24/10/2008, at 9:14 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
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>> I'm suggesting that emotions are tethered to survival need and
>> protection of values etc.
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>> There is radical brain-chemistry change of state under emotions
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>> They have a physical effect on the organism having them that can be
Absolutely, I don't think anyone could question this. Sensations are so
filtered and processed that the sensorium we experience is pretty much just
an elaborate fabrication of the brain... and no perception,
memory-association or thought comes naked into our qualia - they all have
some emotional dr
Kim Jones wrote:
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> On 24/10/2008, at 5:47 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>>> 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 sensati
2008/10/24 Kim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> On 24/10/2008, at 4:14 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>> I'm not sure what distinction you're making. As far as I'm concerned
>> feelings=emotions.
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> Brent which of the following portray 'feelings' and which portray
> 'emotions':
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> I have a ( ) my
> Wonder is more of a feeling though - don't need wonder as a survival
> mechanism
I can imagine wonder having survival value for highly evolved
organisms like the homo sapiens. It is the driving force behind great
scientists and engineers. It's an emotion that drive us to want to
decode reality.
On 24/10/2008, at 6:33 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
> I believe emotions are very basic things. Just strong, overriding,
> biological responses. I'm sure animals have them too.
Without doubt
animals are all 'on the make' - without emotions you cannot have any
'leverage' over your kind
> How e
> Why do we have emotions? Aren't simple, value-conferring feelings good
> enough or something?
Through adaption to the environment (non evolutionary), the human
brain grows to become a much more complex systems than what could be
encoded in the genotype. Lets just say that the Kolomogorv complex
On 24/10/2008, at 5:47 PM, Brent Meeker wrote:
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>> 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
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