Hi John Clark
Emotions are strong feelings that are set off, not by our senses primarily but when our will to do something is blocked. But they are still feelings and can be handled as such, except that they are often more strongly linked to muscular and bodily reactions. Animal studies would bring out what's going on from an instinctual piont of view. In humans, Flight vs Flight episodes are good examples. And in humans, emotions are more often than not triggered by unfortunate thoughts. Emotions are usually linked in particular to facial expressions. Darwin wrote a book about those. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-23, 12:32:50 Subject: Re:_Thought_Doesn?_Think_That_It_Feels On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > We have very often dismissed emotion Nothing mysterious about emotion, its just a condition that predisposes a computer or a human to behave in one way rather than another.? > feelings and consciousness in human.? ? Unfortunately that is not true for philosophers, they don't dismiss consciousness in humans, in fact that's just about the only thing they want to talk about despite the fact that such talk has never once produced anything of value. However philosophers are reluctant to talk about intelligence in humans, even though the subject has proven to be much more fruitful, because its also much harder, and unlike a bullshit consciousness theory a bullshit intelligence theory is easy to shoot down because you can see with your own eyes that it just doesn't work, and that takes all the fun out of theorizing. Another advantage is that to become a consciousness theorist you really don't need to know anything, a grade school education is more than enough, but it takes years of study before you can even begin to figure out how intelligence works, with consciousness you can start producing hot air immediately and to some that's more fun. So philosophers continue to blather on and on about consciousness and, having abandoned the subject, the study of intelligence has been left to computer scientists, programers, mathematicians and neurologists. ? John K Clark? -- 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. -- 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.
