Yes, Molly, between the feeling in our cognition and all of its connections rooted in the subconscious ... the unillumined world within us.
On Oct 20, 5:19 pm, Molly Brogan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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