[MD] Emotions

[Steven Peterson]

Hi John,

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Steven Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:
...
>
>> 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.


Fear and anger are patterns that a human animal participates in
without regard to any social context. A human living in the wild
devoid of any human contact would still participate in these patterns.
That is because they are biologically latched rather than passed from
person to person as social patterns are.

But you seem about as convinced as I am that you already know what
sort of pattern emotions are, so there is probably not much more to
say.

Best,
Steve