Colin Cooper

The Conscious mind is a conscious representation of evolution ? it was moulded and created by evolution , designed and driven by evolution . It is Con...

I look at it slightly different , we have fun as a reward , a rock climber enjoys the actively because he is preparing , physically and emotionally fo...

Lets try some lateral thinking to ease the discussion . We put names to things and label them in a attempt to understand them , using our conscious mi...

"Are you suggesting that emotions determine what ideas the intellect turns to, and thus in the end determines what the intellect comes to know? And wo...

"Emotions" are not spiritual or mental states . We are conscious of our emotions , but a Unconscious mind only reacts to "emotions" . We have a develo...

The Garden of Eden is only a interesting observation of how we have try to understand ourselves . The fact we need certain neurological features to en...

So what does it tell us when someone can not learn a emotion ? Empathy for example . "Note that a character who lacks empathy can still be perfectly c...

Its our brain and its workings that drives our evolution . Our minds created Gods , to cheat death , to understand what you can not , your subconsciou...

We do not learn emotions as a skill , but we do have the skill to learn how to use emotions , which in itself brings a interesting Question . I become...

Its the Nature of philosophy to disagree . The nature of a philosopher is to argue :)

"Importantly, emotions, as differential, require that emotions are learned: they are a skill, which we learn to employ in one way or another, sometime...

You are elegant and intelligent in you're response and logic . Yet you still fall into the trap of believing that if you can not see it , it can not b...

Better to ask yourself what are emotions ? they are all instinctive , often run by our sub-conscious mind . Do we control our emotions and decisions ?...

To a stone age man water from the sky is something from nothing . Until he understands how weather and rain actually works . Or do you believe we unde...

You can not have something out of nothing , even a particle proton comes from somewhere , we just don't understand yet , last I read about them they t...