Hi guys, >From a scientific point of view, emotions arise from the limbic system and >involve the hypothalamus. This part of the brain sits on top the brain stem >and is considered primitive since most mammals have it. See how silly science >can be? Relegating emotions to some pre-intellectual place. Perhaps we >cannot define them since they were there before we had words. We can only >define that which is derived from words.
Mark On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Joe > > >> Take a long look at emotions. To say they are unreal if foolish. To >> define >> Joy is equally foolish, you are bound to miss something. DQ/SQ. >> >> Joe > > > Interesting because yesterday I stopped by my old MoQ friend Steve Marquis's > house, and we had a rousing discussion concerning emotions and DQ. In that > discussion, I started out postulating your point, which is that DQ is > emotion. Steve argued with me and we went round and round for a while. I > don't know if he reached any conclusions, but I feel I sure did. DQ might > not be emotional, but my personal response to it certainly is. And since I > only have my emotional intelligence to judge by, I have to admit that I > can't go outside of that response in my analysis. Deep down, whatever else > "rightness" is, its a feeling in my soul that I call "emotion". But this > feeling I have, I have to construe as being *about something outside of my > feelings, eh? So I can't relegate DQ to "whatever you feel" anymore than > "Quality is just in your head.* > * > * > *Thanks,* > * > * > *John * > 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
