On 29 Jan, 08:06, fiddler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ll just claim that emotions do not exist due to lack of direct > > (external) observation any more than experiences of the divine exist. > > emotions are observable and testable, just find someone you don't like > and start pushing buttons. not only that but they can be artificially > triggered in a lab.
Have they artificially induced an individual to feel sexual love towards their own children, yet? Or is that unethical? Can they induce an individual to no longer recognise themselves or to no longer have thoughts? Or do we need to recall Dr. Mengele to work out some finer points? ;-) > > On Jan 28, 9:18 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Just addressing one on the list Chris, if I were more of a skeptic, > > I’d make a big fuss about how neither I nor anyone else has ever seen > > or touched an emotion. Yes, I’ve felt emotion(s) in a slightly > > different meaning of the term ‘feel’.[internally] Yet, this is > > subjective to the max. And, yes, there are physiological correlates to > > people’s subjective reporting on what they feel. And again, such > > correlates are not the emotion itself. So, as a free thinking skeptic, > > And I don’t even consider any of this a mystery nor do I embrace faith > > or revelation. And, I do embrace the scientific method. > > > On Jan 28, 6:39 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On each of those topics, no faith is required in an empirical stance. > > > Emotions exist, are measurable, have an underlying physiological > > > mechanism, > > > which can be fine tuned or adjusted via externalities. Intuition is > > > subconscious analysis. We do it, it's observable, and as would be > > > expected, > > > is certainly nothing like "ESP". Vitality, attention? I don't understand > > > their inclusion. By vitality, do you mean how energetic someone is, or how > > > healthy? Why would that be a matter of faith? Same with attention...how is > > > focus a faith issue? Charm? Do you mean an accelerated understanding and > > > capability within interpersonal ritualistic behaviour? Love is easy as > > > well...assuming you're willing to define it first. > > > > Those who think that science doesn't cover all the tenets and facets of > > > human behaviour, aren't viewing those things from a scientific > > > perspective, > > > which makes sense...once you begin to analyze them from a scientific > > > perspective, they lose their mystery, and there is an appeal to the > > > mystery, > > > for those who need faith. > > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:31 AM, ornamentalmind > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > I wonder about “having faith in” things like: emotions, intuition, > > > > vitality, attention, charm etc. How does that work? Does one require > > > > having ‘empirical’ proof of such things? Note that I’ve left ‘love’ > > > > off of the list too. > > > > > On Jan 28, 5:57 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yes, Pat, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We know. > > > > > > However, you're mistaking the empiricist stance, as so many theists > > > > > do. > > > > > > I will believe something when I am presented with empirical evidence > > > > > for > > > > its > > > > > existence. Until such time, I do not expend belief. There is no > > > > > empirical > > > > > evidence for a soul, therefore I do not believe in such a thing. You > > > > > have > > > > > faith that souls are comprised of fields of energy. I do not. You have > > > > faith > > > > > that humans possess souls to begin with. I do not. This is not a faith > > > > based > > > > > stance; it's a faithless stance. I'm not sure why that concept is so > > > > > difficult for those with faith to understand. Did you start out with > > > > faith, > > > > > and simply can't conceive of not believing in something not implicitly > > > > > proven? Neither Ian nor I have implicitly stated "There is no soul, > > > > > there > > > > is > > > > > no God". We simply note that lacking evidence for such, we can't have > > > > faith > > > > > in it. > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Pat <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On 28 Jan, 12:55, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 28 January 2010 12:30, Pat <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > So, it boils down to the fact that you have faith that there is > > > > > > > > no > > > > > > > > 'soul'. Okey doke, I can accept that. > > > > > > > > Got a name for that straw man, Pat? :) > > > > > > > > I don't want to make a tyrant of logic here, but if someone claims > > > > the > > > > > > > existence of non-material soul then evidence for that claim must > > > > > > > be > > > > > > > supplied. Russell, teapot, etc. > > > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > > And I asked you on what basis you derived your belief that ther eis > > > > > > no > > > > > > soul. It boiled down to your faith rather than any evidence. There > > > > > > is no Russell's Teapot! Besides, my definition of a soul is a > > > > > > 'field > > > > > > of energy' and if you refute fields of energy, well... Yes, I know > > > > > > that particular one hasn't been empirically proven...yet, but that > > > > > > does not mean that it does not exist; rather, it only means it > > > > > > hasn't > > > > > > been discovered yet. If you recall, there was a time when Uranus > > > > > > and > > > > > > Neptune hadn't been discovered; did they only pop into existence > > > > > > when > > > > > > the telescope landed there? And the whole Russell's Teapot thing is > > > > > > so naff I'm surprised anyone falls for that logic. 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