Hi Ian, I am in the no-self (anatta) camp, but like everything else there are subtleties to consider: 'sense of self' which I know exists and actual self which is missing. "I feel my emotions therefore I am." doesn't do much for me. How you use your brain / body is only a consideration if you have awareness in the present. Otherwise, it seems to me the patterns have you.
Not much left for consideration in the brain/mind workings if you take all the neuroscientists to hold the truth. Didn't we recently discuss that science is story-telling? Do you exempt your favorites: Zeman / Austin / Sacks /Ramchandran, now McGilchrist from that category? Anyway, it certainly is interesting. I am almost through with the Albahari book, but I am going to reread it immediately. Marsha On Aug 5, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > 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 ___ 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
