Well, OCD sufferers feel the need to control everything. There is no room for doubt or uncertainty. Emotions are necessary, though. We have to have them. We wouldn't function well without them. Emotion, Decision Making and the Orbitofrontal Cortex
Desolation Left emptiness, vacant room stark walls, lonely broom tilting table, checkered cloth coffee stains, lifeless moth human beings here once dwelt perhaps hope here once was felt but look around and see could it have been but misery desolation dwells Uninspired ornaments of alabaster molded scrolls of casting plaster windows smudged with coated grime wooden floors revealing time desolation dwells Left emptiness, vacant room stark walls, lonely broom tilting table, rusty knife reminders of the time this lonely place once was alive human beings here once dwelt joy and sorrow once were felt now shadows cast a silent spell and desolation dwells
Ants function perfectly well without them. What you mean is that we wouldn't function well as humans without them... and in that case, I'd agree. My quibble is that in acknowledging their usefulness, we tend to ascribe to them too much importance. Doubt and uncertainty are useful only in that they aid in decision making once one overcomes them. Emotions are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Romantic literature gives the illusion otherwise, and that illusion is the bane of many. Might try my hand at poetry... again... someday.
Well, perhaps we are pheromone insensitive but we're not blind, are we? Chemicals used to elicit social and reproductive behaviors; how are emotions any different? Distant signaling was probably very useful. You’d never want to be up close and personal with a potential enemy now, would you? "Modern cognitive science and neuroscience show that studying the role of emotion in mental function (including topics ranging from flashes of scientific insight to making future plans), that no human has ever satisfied this criterion, except perhaps a person with no affective feelings, for example an individual with a massively damaged amygdala or severe psychopathy. Thus, such an idealized form of rationality is best exemplified by computers, and not people. However, scholars may productively appeal to the idealization as a point of reference." [Wikipedia] Are you a psychopath, Marquis? What? I thought you enjoyed verbose romance novelists, e.g. Ayn Rand, Tiassa, etc. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Where do you think the answer lies? Is it the internal vs. the external, your self-interest vs. others? Even selfishness is codependent. Self-love is even a chemical reaction, right? Rand and her lotus eaters, hah, that’s why I asked you if objectivists overestimated their independence from society? The internal and external are always interdependent. Is love a reflection? Hmm…I don’t know. We do seem to seek ourselves in others, do we not? "We're born alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."—Orson Welles Perhaps that's the nitty-gritty; love allows us to escape ourselves. Well, you certainly can't escape by standing on the ledge gazing into the abyss, that’s for sure. You don't exist there. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Chemical reactions are real. However, love is fed by potentialities through our imagination. Maybe that's where the illusions lie. But here's the kicker…the "self" that, too… is an illusion. Ha-ha… funny, huh? :bugeye:
Ants and other hive insects communicate on a chemical level. Even a brainless slime mold exhibits a pseudo intelligence by leaving chemical trails.. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brainless-slime-molds/ IMO, without some form of cognition there would be no human civilization. In addition to chemical (odor) and other physical signals most of our actions are based on the mirror neural network which allows us to experience empathy and understanding of morality. Why can a poem (strings of words) create an emotional response and why does a psychopath not show social skills? When we look at others we are looking at ourselves. Why do we respond emotionally to someone else's tragedy? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608006000268 IMO, this is why smileys and emoticons are so effective.
Ya, I can’t remember for sure, but I think it was Ramachandran that suggested the body is the only thing that prevents us from actually feeling other people’s pain. That mirror neurons are necessary for learning and mimicking, but also a prerequisite to self-reflection. That self-reflection was a byproduct from this. I'm not too sure but it is interesting. Hey, thanks for the tip on the pottery wheel, BTW. I would have never figured that out. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Always wanted to have a potters wheel. To take a lump of clay and shape it into a utensil or a work of art appeals to me. It must be one of the oldest skills of the "toolmakers". And this little clip may be of interest regarding the mirror neural system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zfgFfC5kOs&list=PL20167D4F8FFB717E
You remind me of my cat Because my cat was bred And bread was dough And a doe is a deer And you are dear to me.
Sprite gratitude is like autumn leaves that disperse from the being of tree in rite at severance the gratitude for being is a mutual will of thanks that feeds cosmic love & trust.
Here Here Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Politics are yet distinct of humaneity. As humaneity is distinct from politics in the idea of family. Hurtred exists for beings whom dictate their lives through religion of one another religion itself as if sects where political. Sects of religion are cultural fields. *********************************** A field and I what a joy to see cosmic love of the religion of the cosmos at play making flowers for sight, I like the truth of existence an earthling I suppose words for I am sort of a sunflower with good seeds of words and shell for paper a cosmos flower child of tithonia tithonia will and lavender breeds my sage intelligence of forget me not words I needn't be shy of myself for I am free a being secrate in the word humaneity.
I Don't Know Dear Life it grieves me from time to time. How many have fallen ill or died because of negative language Especially the warnings of risk of health on pharmaceutical commercials since the 1990's... dear trust, it makes me so sad when I think of the beautiful that became numb to life starting in those years real life simplicity of let's say the greater health our country had around about and afore 1969 I don't know. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
(just writing ? behaviorist poetry) ?Freedom exists in a schoolbook Adequacy is relative to action. I know idea is directly related to will and that mirror mixed with electronic light and idea change view of soluble matter beyond a peek hmmm rite and adequacy and spirit grease of a sought passed on (dead) domestic pet or eaten eyed food that interest mergeing with a body could it be childhood cancer a child with parents that are fascinated by creature comfort's in a superficial way yet lacking in adequate time and attention relative to good times of free play.. A child spending too much time in the house is often somewhat lonely and 'lo thinks children are born responsive and thoughtful yet need care and friendship, scholarship interest and freeplay O' what lack in esoteric thought is this concerning eyed food or death of a domestic pet the child seeks and the spirit grease responds to the calling that a somewhat advanced lonely child merges with and ends up unwell because perhaps the parents neglect for different reasons writing writing abacus slider to clean the theme - ha.. reincarnation & incarnation are a freedom of choice field of nonattachment hmmm and a book titled good times chase away cancer