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>You got it backwards, emotions rule because they are based on what you
>think, therefore thinking comes first and should be based on facts.
Richard, your information on this is just plain wrong. It is
part of the Cartesian myth from which we are just emerging
as current research refutes that old model of the primacy of
reason. This actually has great cultural import - especially
for males, many of whom ignore and deny their most
basic urges, and then become intuitionally and
emotionally and relationship challenged. Reason actually
works much better when integrated with emotions so there
is one integrated whole, instead of a psyche at war with itself.
Think about it: when someone comes at you with a gun - do you
calmly look around for a way out, and then calmly follow your
escape plan intellectually and rationally? No - the emotions
immediately trigger adrenalin and other *fight or flight"
biochemicals which are emotionally based. Reason comes
later, when we look back on the incident and say to ourselves,
"Why didn't I do...(such and such)...?"
We are emotionally wired from the womb, and what
we think are our "rational" responses rarely. As we
become more aware and conscious of just how
unconscious we are, and as we become cognizant of how
we respond emotionally, we can then begin to modify our
responses to life. But even there - it's not enough to
tell ouselves rationally that we *should" do this or that -
we have to work on the deeper emotional levels to really
efect any change.
Read any good neuroscience texts. This is not just my
opinion - it's state-of-the-art knowledge of the interaction
between the body and the various interacting parts of
our psyches.
Julienne
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julienne <julienne@xxxxxxxx>
>To: LONG WAVES <LongWaves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:04 PM
>Subject: RE: Merger Mania
>>Iwould also like to suggest that, no matter how
>>"rational" we try to be, the emotions are in charge, and
>>we simply DON'T make purely rational judgements.
>>Our scientific beliefs, just like our religious or
>>philosophical, are always influenced by our life
>>experiences and programming. Neuroscientifically
>>speaking, the two sides of the brain are not
>>independent as we have been lead to believe, and
>>nor are the emotions and reason separate. All
>>brain functions interrelate.
>>
>>>Jas' earlier point is the correct one. The fewer people who believe
>>>something, the more likely it is to be true. Most people are just
plain
>>>wrong about most things most of the time. However, you then get into
the
>>>Catch-22 of trying to find which fringe thing has some kernel of
"truth"
>>>and which are just plain loony.
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