Hi Steve,
I tend to prefer the first. I had not considered the two theories as
being non-exclusive. I tend to prefer the first because it avoids the
supra-natural assumption of the second (an assumption that had
alreadybeen part and parcel of Jainism and Hinduim, albeit in a slightly
different form.) --ED
--- In [email protected], "SteveW" <eugnostos2000@...> wrote:
>
> Hi ED. I am sorry if I misunderstood. So tell me, which model do you
personally endorse, or are both models possibly inclusive of each other?
Steve
--- In [email protected]
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wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> My focus is more on 'the ultimate source of emotions' because of
> question Tao Shei Fei asked:
>
> > "... when you are deconditioning yourself to these "bad habits," are
> you aware also of their source?"
>
> Two possible 'ultimate sources' are:
>
> o The evolutionary biological-psychological model as to how humans
have
> evolved with traits, including emotions, that maximize evolutionary
> fitness in the Darwinian process.
>
> o The other is the Buddhist perspective of transmission of karmic
> tendencies in the process of death and rebirth.
>
> --ED
