RE: Connection Between Intellect and Emotion?
August 19, 2009 at 7:10 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2009 at 7:16 pm by fr0d0.)
Emotion or instinct is what controls us when intellect fails. In the event of trauma instinct can take over completely, for example. There's a fine balance to be struck between emotion and intellect. I think it's wise to follow your heart, but then intellect has to control it.
You can train yourself to control instinct. Hypnosis is an example. As people get older I think intellect becomes dominant. Instinct or 'heart responses' are more controlled through experience.
Instinct is autopilot. Intellect is manual control.
Mental states can be effected by emotion. Is that emotion instinctual or intellectual? Did our intellect produce the emotional response? I'm thinking sadness & happiness are intellectual states and not instinctual. Instinct is more a gut reaction (inner brain again) to fear, hate, desire etc.. A gut reaction doesn't lower our libido, intellectual consideration does. And intellectual consideration can be independent of reality.
Is emotion instinctual or intellectual? An intellectually constructed instinctual response?
You can train yourself to control instinct. Hypnosis is an example. As people get older I think intellect becomes dominant. Instinct or 'heart responses' are more controlled through experience.
Instinct is autopilot. Intellect is manual control.
Mental states can be effected by emotion. Is that emotion instinctual or intellectual? Did our intellect produce the emotional response? I'm thinking sadness & happiness are intellectual states and not instinctual. Instinct is more a gut reaction (inner brain again) to fear, hate, desire etc.. A gut reaction doesn't lower our libido, intellectual consideration does. And intellectual consideration can be independent of reality.
Is emotion instinctual or intellectual? An intellectually constructed instinctual response?
