Kim Jones wrote: > > 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 do think that perception is more than just receiving/recording data. It includes an emotion or feeling that "this is worth noticing", i.e. "paying attention". You don't perceive everything that impinges on your nervous system. Brent > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
