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Emotion and Feeling

Emotion and Feeling
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 Dinesh
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In the quest to understand human behavior, many have trid to overlook emotion, but to no avail. Behavior and mind, conscious and not, and the brain that generates them, refuse to yield their secrets unless emotion (and the many phenomena that hide under its name) as factored in and given its due.

. . . . Emotions are the dutiful executors and servants of the value principle, the most intelligent offspring yet of biological value. On the other hand, emotions’ own offspring, the emotional feelings that color our entire life from cradle to grave, looms large over humanity by making certain that emotions are not ignored. ~ Page 115

Emotions are complex, largely automated programs and actions concocted by evolution. The actions are complemented by a ‘cognitive’ program that includes certain ideas and modes of cognition, but the world of emotions are largely out of actions carried out in our bodies, from facial expressions and postures to changes in viscera and internal milieu.

Feelings of emotion, on the other hand, are composite perceptions of what happens in our body and mind when we are emoting. As far as the body is concerned, feelings are images of actions rather than actions themselves; the world of feelings is one of perceptions executed in brain maps. But there is a qualification to be made here: the perceptions we call feelings of emotion contain special ingredient that corresponds to the primordial feelings. Those feelings are based on the unique relationship between body and brain that privileges ‘interoception’. There are other aspects of the body being represented in emotional feelings, of course, but interoception dominates the process and is responsible for what we designate as the felt aspect of these perceptions. ~ Page 117

SELF COMES TO MIND
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 Dinesh
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Disgust has elicited little attention in any of the disciplines that claim an interest in the emotions: psychology, philosophy, anthropology. It is not hard to guess the likely reason. The problem is its lack of decorum. Civilization raised our sensitivities to disgust so as to make disgust a kep component of our social control and psychic order, with the consequence tht it became socially and psychically very difficult for civilized people to talk about disgusting thing without having the excuse of either childhood, adolescence, or transgressive jocking. Our negative passions – envy, hatred, malice, jealousy, despair – can be discussed decorously. Talking about them need elicit no blushes, no urges to giggle, no shock, no gorge raising. They do not force upon us the grotesque body unrelenting physical ugliness, nauseating sights and odors; no suppuration, defecation, or rot. The sinful and vicious soul, in other words, is a lot easier to own up to than the grotesque body and the sensory offenses that life itself thrusts upon us. ~ Page 5

THE ANATOMY OF DISGUST
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