[Ham] Instead of pain, why not choose fear, joy, anger, or love as an example of pre-intellectual sensibility? These are emotional values which require no intellection, and they are also more suggestive of the individual's state of being which may be said to "color" his experience of external phenomena.
[Krimel] Yet again you are almost there. Like sensation, emotions are examples of the pre-intellectual. But they are the first layer in the processing of sensation. The emotional responses are built in, what triggers them is learned. Our emotional responses can be trained and they alter our behavior without conscious involvement. Zizik tells us that Hitchcock envisioned a form of entertainment that would bypass narrative by providing the director with buttons he could push to directly simulate emotional responses in the brain. As the first layer of perception emotion provides a fundamentally positive or negative first response to stimulation. All things being equal our intellectual perceptions will be colored by this non-conscious emotional valance. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
