While I agree with the gist, I’m looking forward to a more detailed vision of emotions. This current post gives the false impression that emotions are neatly symetrical and one-dimensional (good-bad). In reality there are multiple dimensions to emotions (desirable-undesirable, pleasurable-displeasing), and they’re not clearly symetrical. If fear is the symetrical of desire, then what is disgust?
Emotions are action triggers and regulators that existed way before cognition did. We might mistakenly believe that they help our cognition by sorting stimuli in good/bad categories, while in reality it’s the opposite. Cognition is just a computer that’s been added on top of our emotional brain to serve (allow me that one emphasis) as an assisting tool.
While I agree with the gist, I’m looking forward to a more detailed vision of emotions. This current post gives the false impression that emotions are neatly symetrical and one-dimensional (good-bad). In reality there are multiple dimensions to emotions (desirable-undesirable, pleasurable-displeasing), and they’re not clearly symetrical. If fear is the symetrical of desire, then what is disgust?
Emotions are action triggers and regulators that existed way before cognition did. We might mistakenly believe that they help our cognition by sorting stimuli in good/bad categories, while in reality it’s the opposite. Cognition is just a computer that’s been added on top of our emotional brain to serve (allow me that one emphasis) as an assisting tool.