RE: Justification for Foundational Belief
August 5, 2012 at 9:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2012 at 9:15 pm by jonb.)
(August 5, 2012 at 8:52 pm)mralstoner Wrote:(August 5, 2012 at 3:18 pm)genkaus Wrote: Our emotions and feelings are not tools of cognition. They do not provide us knowledge. Any beliefs gained by pursuing emotional goals would, by their nature, be unreliable...Yes, of course,
Do you honestly think the only understanding is academic, dispassionate, fitting things in boxes?
Why would emotions have evolved if they are not a useful means of making sense of what is around us. The eye can be fooled, but that is no reason to cut it out. Feynman was such a great scientist because it had an emotional charge for him, and we gained by him pursuing his emotional goals.
What is reliable? You are programmed to seek meaning.
