Jack Cummins

The idea of risks, including food and drink may be important. In particular, alcohol is seem as a specific threat to health. In contrast, sugar, while...

The idea of risk is bound up with ideas of benefits and hazards. It may be where the area of practical and theoretical collide. This is because theory...

In your post you refer to checklists of risk, which may be so variable. In some ways, the checklists may be useful if they go far enough, but if they ...

Sorry for the late response, but I do wonder about the way in.which risk is seen in relation to death. While working in psychiatry, this did seem to b...

For anyone else who is experiencing bed bugs, I am also wondering about the actual risk of harm of bed bugs versus treatments for it. At the present t...

The assessment of nuclear war risk is critical and I would argue that there is the danger of inaccuracies. I understand that there was an incident, du...

It's good to interact with you again. It definitely seems that emotions have immense power. I know that I get fairly instant reactions to life events....

I agree that emotions are hardwired and have a determining aspect. It does relate to issues of free will, although I am inclined to think that humans ...

Yes, will is important as there is a source of motivation and this includes emotion and intuition. Freud spoke of the life and death instincts, as Ero...

Your post makes many important points. What I find important in what you are saying is in relation to subjectivity. The interplay between sensory expe...

It could be asked, what are senses exactly? They may be the physiological aspects of emotion and may go beyond the basic five senses of perception. I ...

Based on your reading of Feldman Barrett, I wonder about the reductive aspects of emotions. They may be broken down to the physiological basics or rel...

I think that one of the reasons why I have raised the topic is about the potential for control of the passions. Nevertheless, it may be complicated in...

One of my psychiatric managers said that he thought the music of Coldplay should be played as late night music on the ward every night. That is becaus...

I definitely think that CBT points to the way in which presuppositions involve sense making. Concepts play a significan role and this is where emotion...

I am aware that a main principle within cognitive behavioural therapy is that a person is not disturbed by experiences but by the thoughts of the expe...

Do you wish to say anything about Lisa Feldman Barrett. I don't mean that as a way of me avoiding following it up. I know it has been mentioned in a f...

I am glad that you appreciate the complexity of the idea of emotions. That is because as a concept, which may be regarded as psychology, has so much v...

I am concerned that human beings are being expected to behave and perform more like machines and robots. It as if George Orwell's '1984' has become a ...

I can't remember your stories in detail to say which was the best because there have been so many stories now. It is true that there are plenty of sou...

It may be a bit late to introduce a specific title but we could always have some brainstorming prompts, just as an option. Discussion here can generat...

It is true that computers are reflections of those who created them. My phone seems like an extra part of me, but it does not have emotions other than...

Your experience is interesting and it is surprising what traumatic experiences can do the brain and emotions. There are some theories and research lin...

I agree that a storyline prompt would help everyone get started. I go to a creative writing group and it is so useful having a starting point and it i...

Having read your posts and some authors which you refer to, I looked at a collection of Sartre's writings which I have in my room and found a whole se...

I have a copy of Spinoza's 'Ethics', which I have been crawling through for ages. So, I will have a look at it, even though I don't find his writing t...

Actually, I wish to get hold of a copy of Damasio's 'Looking for Spinoza'. I have read about it and from what I remember of this was how embodiment is...

I definitely think that you have a point about the way feelings may have been a better term to consider. Probably, the reason why I used emotions is b...

Yes, I am inclined to think that mastery of emotions can be learned but is a rare achievement, such as the consciousness of monks and for spiritual ma...

Even if you see my outpost as confused it is still an area of philosophy. If I wasn't a little confused when I wrote it may be I wouldn't have needed ...

I am surprised that you make a clear division between philosophy and psychology, especially as the two wre originally linked clearly until the twentie...

I guess one way in which I could phrase a specific question would be what are emotions made of? That is because they have a biological basis but go be...

Yes it is interesting that ancient texts refer to passions as opposed to emotions. It may be because the chemical basis was not fully understood. Even...

Thank you for your reply and I have read some, but not all of the book. The idea of fast and slow thinking may be of significance for emotion and its ...

I grew up in Bedford but have spent most of my adult life in London. Until the beginning of this year I was in South London, but I am currently in Nor...

I have only just found the thread. I am certainly not going to be challenging the deadline. I will enter if I can get a story done because I am lookin...

As far as Dennett's understanding of qualia, it does seem that his idea of the 'user- illusion'of consciousness seems to omit reflective consciousness...

I wonder about the nature of 'theories' and how they stand in philosophy, especially in relation to propositions, which may be concepts rather than em...

The blurred understanding of 'metaphysics' does seem to be the root of so much misunderstanding, ranging from transcendental idealism, realism and nat...

It is a whole spectrum of ideas and I know that at times I am a bit of a psychonaut. However, science and pseudo-science is debatable in so far as its...

Thank you for your post, because it gives plenty to reflect upon. My combination of Wittgenstein and quantum physics together may seem odd but it is b...

One particular book which I read which speaks of the importance of quantum physics and the mind/body interface and agency in consciousness is 'The Qua...

Fortunately, the landlord did replace the mattress because there were about a thousand bugs or eggs. He has told me to keep the plastic on and I had t...

We had pest control twice and that kind of earth was put all over the floor. I think it may have done more than the gas which was used. Tomorrow there...

I definitely agree that Wittgenstein would see quantum physics as 'besides the point'. It is that aspect of his thinking was questioning really. In a ...

Of course, there are overlaps with this area of thinking and the question of 'reality', but this thread was intended to be more specific, focusing on ...

There is the entire philosophy of duality and its lesser forms, metaphysically and psychologically. From a philosophy point of view the most important...

The nature of opposites, ranging from good and evil, masculine and feminine, dark side and light may be useful. It does come, however, with central is...

It does seem that you are familiar with the different directions of philosophical thinking. It may come down to tunnel vision or opening up to wider f...

Thanks for your reply, because the complex nature of subjective and objective aspects of knowledge and understanding are not simple at all. Each perso...