Where does that picture come from? It's an interesting way of looking at it. — Benkei
I don't think sad and mad are bad emotions, though they can certainly arise where they are not helpful. It would be odd not to get angry in many situations and in those situations, anger is a motivator. We evolved or the trait evolved because it is useful in many situations, including many social ones where protection, appropriate relation, boudndary setting and other issues need to be addressed. As social mammals sadness is not simply inevitable - as a byproduct of valuing other people - but even has advantages in general....Sad and mad are both kinds of bad (negative affect), and people always forget the second kind of good (positive affect): — Pfhorrest
Aren’t emotions just chemical changes in the brain and thus merely subjective experiences? — Roy Davies
Sounds at the very least a combinatin of emotions and thoughts.Wishful thinking. — David Mo
Ibid.Anxiety.
IbidUnresolved fear (procastrination).
Would as the others likely have non-emoitonal cognitive factors that set the emotions in this case aggression going.Aggression (sadism).
Motivations are emotions. You may have reasoned ideas about why X is a good goal, but you are still motivated by the emotions and desires. These are now informed, by not motivated, by thoughts. Adults have more information, more types of goals and have more information including, for example, conclusions drawn from reasoning. But the motivation is still emotions/desire. You have to care and desire and dislike and want and hate and love to mobilize the body/self. Otherwise, however well reasoned, you just have thoughts moving through the screan of the mind.Emotions are part of your thinking brain. They are absolutely essential as you grow when you are just learning about the world. As you age emotions are still important, but they are no longer your sole motivator for action. — Philosophim
Adults have more information, more types of goals and have more information including, for example, conclusions drawn from reasoning. But the motivation is still emotions/desire. — Coben
Sorry to hear about the depression, I do know how serious and unpleasant that can be. But you must have desired to accomplish certain things, been concerned emotionsally about what would happen if you could not work. I do know that depression puts a dark haze (my words that may not fit your experience) over everything, but still, even depressed, unless completely bedridden and frozen, one has desires and concerns, sometimes emotions in relation to others that motivate actions. Thoughts cannot motivate on their own.So this is a little personal, but I have had chronic depression since I was a teenager. Depression is not sadness, it is the absence of emotion. I have had to live my life despite this biweekly to monthly lack of emotion, and live my life by reason and a code.
While this is an extreme case, I have often faced great emotional frustration for a rational goal. I was a teacher for five years in inner city schools, and faced a lot of stresses and frustrations. If I were merely guided by my emotions, I would have quit in my first year. — Philosophim
I am not advocating this, and also I think there is a false dichotomy, the parts of the brain are all meshed together, the limbic system involved in all thinking and even necessary for rational thinking.You definitely can live your life by emotions alone. — Philosophim
I agree.There are no pure emotions. The emotions are not isolated processes, separate from the rest of the mental activity. — David Mo
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