[MD] Emotions

[Joseph Maurer]

On 11/3/09 9:11 AM, "John Carl" <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:

> but it is emotions that
> provide the groundwork for selection based on social quality. Without
> emotions there could be no social status, celebrity, honor, etc.,
> but emotions themselves are part of a mammal's biological response to
> its environment.
>
>
 
 you and I agree completely.
 
Warm fuzzy feeling John
 

Hi John, Steve, and all,

I disagree. There is something that intervenes between the instinct of a
mammal¹s biological response and the response of a sentient to its
environment and that is ³self consciousness².  I was raised on a small farm,
and the goring of cows by each other and the pecking of chickens, by each
other lead to death in some cases.  Emotions are the basis for morality:
need we ask what is good and what is not good?

Imho: Consciousness is the undefined thread that supplants instinct.  It is
DQ and evolves to four further levels beyond the organic level: emotional,
intellectual, higher emotional, and higher intellectual levels.  The last
two are the domain of heroes and I don¹t know how and I am too lazy to work!

Joe

>> but it is emotions that
>> provide the groundwork for selection based on social quality. Without
>> emotions there could be no social status, celebrity, honor, etc.,
>> but emotions themselves are part of a mammal's biological response to
>> its environment.
>> 
>> 
> 
>  you and I agree completely.
> 
> Warm fuzzy feeling John