I wholeheartedly agree, Vam, feeling is the origin and key to our being. But I do consider emotion to be more complex than the simple expression of feeling, as we keep emotional templates and rely on them to provide the basis of comparison for our experience, relieving us of the need to construct each experience anew. Problems arise when we become blind to these emotional tracks and how they can limit us in the present experience.
On Oct 20, 1:45 am, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote: > Emotions are expressions of what you feel. The feelings are > overpowering enough to determine your thought, attitude, speech and > action, and qualifies what you are in terms behaviour and ethic. > > All else is explanation of the phenomenon. It serves to make us be > aware of the material coincidental processes and to be to apply such > knowledge, one or other. > > All of that changes nothing : What you feel still " determines your > thought, attitude, speech and action, and qualifies what you are in > terms behaviour and ethic." > > On Oct 19, 9:56 am, Observer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 4:13 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What role does emotion play in our everyday lives? How does emotion > > > affect our experience and being? These are questions addressed by > > > some of the finest minds of our era. > > > > For Piaget, emotion is the motivating force of action emanating from > > > outside the individual in the form of sensations emitted by objects. > > > His view is rooted in the Newtonian conception of a universe comprised > > > in isolated objects requiring an emotive force to initiate a series of > > > mechanistic interactions between objects. Piaget reduces all > > > conscious human experience to a cognitive formulation of these causal > > > relations. His abstract concept of emotion as force fails to > > > explain the relationship between bodily feelings, emotions, and higher > > > forms of consciousness in human beings. > > > > Alfred North Whitehead indicates the factors in human nature which go > > > to make up the particular emotions, arise from our apprehension of > > > these permanent features of order in the world. His concrete concept > > > of emotion gives insight into the experience of bodily feelings and > > > their relationship to the growth and learning of human beings. He > > > explains the emotions are the crucial mediating factors between the > > > welter of awareness of these feelings in higher organisms. “We > > > perceive other things which are in the world of actualities in the > > > same sense as we are. So our emotions are directed toward other > > > things, including of course, our bodily organs . . . the world for me > > > is nothing else than how the functioning of my body present it for my > > > experience.” > > > > Jean Paul Sartre sees it differently in his book, The Emotions, > > > Outline of a Theory. He sees our emotion as an “abrupt drop of > > > consciousness into the magical.” He believes: “emotion is not > > > accidental modification of a subject which would otherwise be plunged > > > into an unchanged world. It is easy to see that every emotional > > > apprehension of an object which frightens, irritates, sadness, etc., > > > can be made only on the basis of a total alteration of the world. In > > > order that an object may in reality appear terrible, it must realize > > > itself as an immediate and magical presence face to face with > > > consciousness.“ In other words, we modify our experience with emotion > > > to make it more comfortable, according to our own nature. We emote > > > sadness, anger or gloom because “lacking the power and will to > > > accomplish the acts which we have been planning, we behave in such a > > > way that the universe no longer requires anything of us.” > > > > What do YOU think? > > > Observer > > Emotions are the sensory perception of the peptides, and endogenous > > opiates having been introduced into their respective receptors. > > > No more no less. The bodies abilities of habituation have apparently > > been factors in enforcing behavioral patterns , some conducive to > > survival and reproduction some neutral thereto and some less than > > positive. It would seem that overall there might have been more pluses > > than negatives. Viewing it strictly from the standpoint of survival > > and reproduction . > > > The "emotional content " of ones thoughts are influential only as the > > effects of the drugs they produce and are habit forming in the > > extreme. Such as commitments to superstitious nonsense, and non > > scientifically verifiable beliefs are residuals there of and produce > > a wide variety of psychological problems wherein reason and evidence > > are set aside in favor of the drug experience . > > > Regards > > > Psychonomist- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" 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/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
