[MD] Emotions for Joe

[MarshaV]

Hi Ian,

I am in the no-self (anatta) camp, but like everything else there 
are subtleties to consider: 'sense of self' which I know exists 
and actual self which is missing.  "I feel my emotions therefore 
I am." doesn't do much for me.  How you use your brain / body 
is only a consideration if you have awareness in the present.  
Otherwise, it seems to me the patterns have you.   

Not much left for consideration in the brain/mind workings if you 
take all the neuroscientists to hold the truth.  Didn't we recently 
discuss that science is story-telling?  Do you exempt your favorites: 
Zeman / Austin / Sacks /Ramchandran, now McGilchrist from that 
category?  

Anyway, it certainly is interesting.   

I am almost through with the Albahari book, but I am going to 
reread it immediately.  


Marsha 





On Aug 5, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> Marsha asked
> "What role do emotions play in consciousness?"
> 
> Well, our consciousness (the bundle of patterns that is us) are
> conscious of them.
> I feel my emotions therefore I am.
> (What happens next depends on how you use your brain / body.)
> 
> BTW - I just blogged the clip you linked and also linked back to my
> earlier piece on Haidt's Happiness, and noticed Damasio featured
> heavily there too. I made a throwaway remark a few weeks ago that
> there really wasn't very much contentious left to be understood in the
> brain / mind workings these days - even things like "will" - one of
> the reasons I get frustrated when we continually recycle old debates.
> I still "feel" that's true.
> 
> Haidt is/was (almost) a total Buddhist, but just pulled back to a
> position of dynamic balance in his conclusions.
> 
> Regards
> Ian
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