[MD] Value and the Individual

[Krimel]

[Ham]
 Instead of pain, why not choose fear, joy, anger, or love as an example of
 pre-intellectual sensibility?  These are emotional values which require no
 intellection, and they are also more suggestive of the individual's state 
 of being which may be said to "color" his experience of external phenomena.

[Krimel]
Yet again you are almost there. Like sensation, emotions are examples of the
pre-intellectual. But they are the first layer in the processing of
sensation. The emotional responses are built in, what triggers them is
learned. Our emotional responses can be trained and they alter our behavior
without conscious involvement. Zizik tells us that Hitchcock envisioned a
form of entertainment that would bypass narrative by providing the director
with buttons he could push to directly simulate emotional responses in the
brain.

As the first layer of perception emotion provides a fundamentally positive
or negative first response to stimulation. All things being equal our
intellectual perceptions will be colored by this non-conscious emotional
valance.