RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
September 29, 2017 at 5:06 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2017 at 5:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 29, 2017 at 5:00 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: You could have a positive emotion which is a good emotional value judgment while, at the same time, having a thought form of a good value judgment. I have never said that it would always be a situation where you would only have one or the other. However, there are times where you can have just one or the other.What times, about what?
Quote:If you were in a mindless state and did not judge anything as good or bad while feeling bliss from a drug, then this would be an example of having an emotional good value judgment and not having any thought form of value judgment.If I'm feeling emotion I'm not in a mindless state. That's just a term of art. You still haven't given me any reason to assume that my thoughts and my emotions are a different thing. I'm asking for an example, not a reassertion.
Quote: Another example would be if you had a mental condition known as anhedonia which does not allow you to feel positive emotions. You could think that your life is good, but you would only be having a thought form of a good value judgment without the emotional good value judgment.You're playing fast and loose with anhedonia....but if the only people to whom your worldview applies or might even be conceptually useful are people with that condition........nothing you can say will change that for them. No amount of thinking happy thoughts will suddenly mean that they feel pleasure. I agree, that's no way to live...most of us don't.
Meanwhile, I'm still right here, not suffering from anhedonia...still possessing positive value judgements and associated positive feelings........and still not hearing the voices of the angels..TD......
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