[MD] Emotions

[John Carl]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Steven Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Steve:
> I agree that our response to social patterns is most apparent as
> emotions, but so is our response to many biological patterns.



Ok, let's look at this closely.  When you say "our", you're implying a
socially defined  self right there.  Sure it's an aggregate of cells, but we
don't assign cells "we-ness".  They are parts of me, they're not me.  That's
the way our concepts  have evolved and this self that has emotional
investment in protecting its biological parts, bases its sense of value upon
socially moderated biological patterns.  Sex, nursing, weaning,
territoriality all are patterns of social relationship with biological and
inorganic components - but that which is the creative pattern-maker is fully
within the social level of being.




> Fear,
> anger, and affection for siblings and children evolved biologically
> for biologiocal benefit.


fear, anger and affection evolved socially for social benefit.    Seeing the
work of patterns of value is the best thing about the MoQ.  You can't reduce
this to biological mechanism.  Biological mechanism alone doesn't explain
social patterning.