(October 30, 2017 at 11:31 am)Khemikal Wrote: What parts are the "emotional parts", and what "sends" them there? How do emotions, somehow detached from thoughts or value judgement, allow you to "see" anything, but more specifically,how do they "see" good or bad value?
We have the emotional part of our brains and then we have the rational, thinking cortex which is obvious since this is all just neuroscience. The rational, thinking cortex alone cannot be any emotional state in our lives. It, alone, cannot allow us to see any values in our lives. However, thoughts of value send signals to the emotional part of our brains to make us feel either positive or negative emotions. Since emotions themselves are value judgments as I have said before and since value judgments are what allow us to perceive value since value judgments are a perceptual state, then our emotions are what allow us to see the good and bad value in our lives. But, like I said, the rational, thinking value judgments themselves do not allow us see any real values.