(July 6, 2012 at 5:14 am)Ace Otana Wrote: I'd chance to say that emotion/interest drives you to certain subjects that lead you to want to study and learn as much about as possible. I have an interest in particles, I'm curious as to how they function and the effects they have. Like virtual particles (one of my favs), they literally pop in and out of existence at random, self created and self destroyed in an instant, something to do with quantum mechanics, another law of nature.
But yeah, emotions can lead you in a certain direction but doesn't play any role in the fact finding process.
But motivations do play a role on the fact finding process. Because human actions have to be motivated; people don't just randomly decide to do things (most of the time). So most of the examples of progress that we see in history are going to include some kind of emotion that helped motivate it--without which the progress might not have occurred.
(Of course, there's a flip side--emotional demotivations or lack of motivation that resulted in a potential breakthrough going undiscovered.)
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