RE: Emotions are intrinsically good and bad
October 31, 2017 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2017 at 7:11 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(October 31, 2017 at 6:22 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I think you are confusing logic with definitions, tbh. Since emotions lead to behaviors of avoidance or seeking, then you can see implied evaluations there. I love someone, I'm drawn to them, maybe procreate at some point. I've evaluated that person as lovable, and without the emotion of love, I couldn't do that. That's straight forward enough. It's so obvious, though, as to be almost unworth mentioning, or entrenching it as a philosophical meme.
Now, I don't want to be insulting, but if you are OCD / autistic, it may be that your feelings and motivations are a little different than mine, so what for me seems straight forward might for you be an important point to grasp. And certainly, it's possible that if you do think differently than the majority, you may see something we can't.
But based on the words you're saying, I really think you are weaving words together which are just different permeations of definition, and are not in fact stating a logical conclusion or even a new idea.
So, are you saying that I am just defining emotions differently and that rational value judgments themselves can be real emotions since we can define them as being such? By this, are you implying that our biochemical induced emotions can be defined as not being any emotions at all and we could instead define our rational value judgments as being emotions? But there is a huge difference between definitions and reality. There is a label version of emotions which is just the word emotions and then there is the reality version of emotions which are the actual emotions just as how there is the label version of value judgments versus the reality version of value judgments. I think it is reality that our biochemical emotions are real emotions. Since our rational value judgments themselves would have to be a no biochemical emotional state since a rational mindset or thought alone is the same thing as being a no biochemical emotional state, then it would have to follow that rational value judgments cannot be any real value judgments providing that positive biochemical emotions are good value judgments and negative biochemical emotions are bad value judgments.