Marsha asked "What role do emotions play in consciousness?" Well, our consciousness (the bundle of patterns that is us) are conscious of them. I feel my emotions therefore I am. (What happens next depends on how you use your brain / body.)
BTW - I just blogged the clip you linked and also linked back to my earlier piece on Haidt's Happiness, and noticed Damasio featured heavily there too. I made a throwaway remark a few weeks ago that there really wasn't very much contentious left to be understood in the brain / mind workings these days - even things like "will" - one of the reasons I get frustrated when we continually recycle old debates. I still "feel" that's true. Haidt is/was (almost) a total Buddhist, but just pulled back to a position of dynamic balance in his conclusions. Regards Ian 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/md/archives.html
