Emotions and Intellect
Imagination and Emotions are responsible for cultural developments and the formation of civilisations.
Imagination and Intellect are responsible for scientific and technological developments – combined with Emotions, latter can have destructive results.
Fear, hatred, envy, greed & the likes, have played major roles in the disappearances of previous civilisations and seem – when goading contemporary sciences and technologies – to be able to bring about global catastrophes and even the disappearance of Sapiens.
Yet, instead of doing his Latin title “reasonable, wise” justice and trying to get rid of this menace, he not only justifies his emotions, by claiming them to be essential for his survival, but boosts them with media and commerce to a rampant force that apparently is able to overpower the intellect – at least it would explain the increasing readiness of scientists to surrender their works and themselves to the lures of money and glory - and the attempts to infect AI`s with emotions.
Imagination and Intellect are responsible for scientific and technological developments – combined with Emotions, latter can have destructive results.
Fear, hatred, envy, greed & the likes, have played major roles in the disappearances of previous civilisations and seem – when goading contemporary sciences and technologies – to be able to bring about global catastrophes and even the disappearance of Sapiens.
Yet, instead of doing his Latin title “reasonable, wise” justice and trying to get rid of this menace, he not only justifies his emotions, by claiming them to be essential for his survival, but boosts them with media and commerce to a rampant force that apparently is able to overpower the intellect – at least it would explain the increasing readiness of scientists to surrender their works and themselves to the lures of money and glory - and the attempts to infect AI`s with emotions.
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emotions are just a reflection of beliefs, they follow that, so they have no blame in themselves for anything
anyone who blames emotions is ignorant of the beliefs creating them
negative emotions come from negative beliefs
if that belief is true then that emotion is justified
so the real problem is true vs false. not positive vs negative
An omission that ought not to surprise, since addicts do not only tend to deny their predicament, but elaborate sophisticated cover-ups, excuses & deceptions, and sometimes even try to seduce and to corrupt those who do not cherish anxiety, angst, distrust, hatred, envy, greed, frustration, grief, guilt, shame, hostility, regret, humiliation, jealousy, rage, remorse, resentment, sadness, sorrow...
I used to think that, but now I have to disagree. For the past year I've been finding my thinking at the mercy of a rollercoaster of emotions the likes of which I never knew before. I start feeling the emotions physically first, without any apparent prompt, and then over time as the emotions linger I find that my mind latches on to things to try to blame them on, and so my thinking turns dark as well. I'm aware in those states that previously I had thought differently, and I try to remind myself of what I thought then and why, but it doesn't make the emotions go away. Then in time they go away of their own accord, or for reasons I haven't completely sorted out, and I start thinking clearly again, and see the ways that I thought while those feelings were drowning me as incorrect, and I make mental notes about all the fallacies involved in them to remind myself later when I feel that way again that the thoughts I end up thinking are wrong. But that's still not effective, and the thoughts don't go away until the feelings do.
1- beliefs which are subconscious
2- emotional reaction to your own beliefs
3- thought reaction to your emotions
cause and effect
Emotions tend to distort and impede the operations of mind.
* "Another view of Consciousness" chapter 2
From my notes on Lisa Feldman Barrett’s ‘How Emotions Are Made’:
Inasmuch as the human psyche is a complex system which includes interactions between body, environment, sensitivity, affect, emotion, motivation, perception, cognisance (cognition and recognition), self awareness, and social awareness, the OP consists of simplistic (hence, unsound) premises and conclusions.
For example: it focuses on negative emotions (fear, hatred, envy, greed) without reference to positive emotions (e.g., attraction, interest, love, joy, acceptance, gratitude, relief, etc.), or to the combination of negative and positive emotions in secondary (or complex) emotions (e.g., submission, awe, remorse, aggressiveness, etc.) which are appropriate responses in various circumstances, or to social emotions (e.g., sympathy, compassion, kindness, etc.) and common phobias which are essential to human survival.
Okay, let's get simple: if your nation is invaded by another nation, aggression would be an appropriate (reasonable) response.
Good case in point.
You required a negative emoticon to communicate.
from "Selfrealisation" by waechter418.wordpress.com
Yeah, like I have time for your vanity project. We are done here.
so, you think scientific and technological developments were driven by Intellect ???? LOL! They were driven historically by warfare , and scientist primarily driven by ego greed and glory and winning pure competition and the emotive rush of conquering the unknown. What about reproduction? Take out emotion, and I say you would not have humanity's intellectual achievements.
Also, I posit that you cannot have human qualia consciousness w/o emotive states.
any solid counterpoints/evidence?