[MD] Emotions

[John Carl]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Steven Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com>wrote:

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.
>

You postulate a ridiculous scenario.  There's no such thing as a human
without social context.  You might be able to construct such a thing as a
manipulated experiment, but then it wouldn't be an experiment upon a real
human.  Real humans come from a society and even when they are alone in the
woods, they carry a society in their heads.  The think in socially bound
language, they are nurtured into being by social relationships and if there
are absolutely no possiblities of relation to other, they'll paint a
volleyball like a head and hold conversations with that.

A man might shake his fist at a storm, and express anger, but this type of
behavior is a projection of a personality upon the weather that creates an
"other" in the imagination from pre-created social patterns.

It's silly to get mad at rocks, or cells or ideas.  It often makes sense to
get mad at people holding ideas or threatening your cells with rocks.



> That is because they are biologically latched rather than passed from
> person to person as social patterns are.
>
>
What tripe.  Anger and fear are not passed from person to person?  Have you
ever been married to a woman raised by an angry mother?  You'd change your
mind fast, my friend.    Biology is the victim of the social crimes, not the
perpetrator.



> 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.
>
>
I am absolutely convinced right now that I am right.  Tomorrow?  Who knows.