[MD] feelings, emotions and the biological level

[David M]

Hi Ron

Is all consciouness a dynamic-emotional-value re-sponse?

What we notice is impinging on us and changing us.

I'd say yes. Even indifference, as Heidegger says, is
a re-sponse.

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Kulp" <RKulp at ebwalshinc.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] feelings, emotions and the biological level


> 
> [Platt]
> To care is to value.
> 
> [Ron]
> Now that, makes a connection. To care is to value..
> Is quality an emotion? Is it THE emotion the one which
> All others stem? 
> 
> Emotion, in its most general definition, is an intense mental state that
> arises 
> automatically in the nervous system rather than through conscious
> effort, and 
> evokes either a positive or negative psychological response. An emotion
> is often 
> differentiated from a feeling.
> 
> Emotion would seem to be termed simularly to a value response 
> James-Lange theory "William James proposed that contrary to common
> belief, awareness of bodily changes activated by a stimulus "is the
> emotion" (1890, p449). If no bodily changes are felt, there is only an
> intellectual thought, devoid of emotional warmth."
> One of the most influential classification approaches in the study of
> emotion is Robert Plutchik's eight primary emotions. The emotions that
> Plutchik lists as primary are:
> 
> anger 
> fear 
> sadness 
> joy 
> disgust 
> surprise 
> curiosity 
> acceptance 
> Similar to the way primary colors combine, primary emotions are believed
> to blend together to form the full spectrum of human emotional
> experience. Plutchik reasons that these eight are primary on
> evolutionary grounds, by 'relating each to behavior with survival
> value'.
> 
> Value.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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