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giza


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Is emotion a necessity?
#14560627 - 06/04/11 03:30 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Any insight on this question?
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Soluminia
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: giza]
#14560638 - 06/04/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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in today's society it is a necessity
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Sleepwalker
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: giza]
#14560643 - 06/04/11 03:34 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Emotions are a vital part of the human experience, and in that way they could be considered "necessary" for the sort of life that we are used to.
We should ask how much of intelligence relies on emotion to function. Is it possible to have human-level intellect pure and without emotion? I'm not so sure.
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giza


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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560669 - 06/04/11 03:40 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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What about the emotions that are linked to morals, would it have any effect on a person if there was no law?
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: giza]
#14560677 - 06/04/11 03:42 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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giza said: Any insight on this question?
What member of the primate family does not show emotion?
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: giza]
#14560686 - 06/04/11 03:45 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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If we had no emotions we could live in a completely lawless, violent state and not give one shit. However if we had no emotions I'm not sure violence would be the result. We would probably all just sit around and rot in place. I think emotions are what motivate us to live our lives (and in turn keep the species rolling along).
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giza


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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560698 - 06/04/11 03:49 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sleepwalker said: If we had no emotions we could live in a completely lawless, violent state and not give one shit. However if we had no emotions I'm not sure violence would be the result. We would probably all just sit around and rot in place. I think emotions are what motivate us to live our lives (and in turn keep the species rolling along).
Yeah, we would most likely go on 'urges' without further thought, kind of see it in animals, they don't seem to kill just to kill but I may not have watched enough animal shows to know for sure. (used animals because they don't seem to have emotion)
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Sleepwalker]
#14560699 - 06/04/11 03:49 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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ask Spock
Edited by SirTripAlot (06/04/11 03:51 PM)
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: SirTripAlot]
#14561016 - 06/04/11 05:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Asking if it's a necessity kind of implies that it's possible to discard it. Emotion is not so much "necessary" as it is "unavoidable."
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Icelander]
#14561087 - 06/04/11 05:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said:
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giza said: Any insight on this question?
What member of the primate family does not show emotion?
This^
Emotions are necessary for animals to interact in groups. This is at least true for mammals; for other creatures you may not call it "emotion".
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Soluminia]
#14561990 - 06/04/11 09:09 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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giza said: Is emotion a necessity?
A necessity for what? 
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Soluminia said: in today's society it is a necessity
How do you figure?
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iThink said:
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Icelander said:
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giza said: Any insight on this question?
What member of the primate family does not show emotion?
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Emotions are necessary for animals to interact in groups. This is at least true for mammals; for other creatures you may not call it "emotion".
Parrots are not mammals, but they can experience depression..would you not call a parrot's depressed state an emotional one because it isn't a mammal?
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: Poid]
#14562049 - 06/04/11 09:25 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I said "may not" as in i'm not sure. I was just thinking about insects such as ants when i posted that, and i'm not sure i would call ants "emotional" in the sense that humans are. I would consider parrots to have emotion.
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: 4896744]
#14562092 - 06/04/11 09:37 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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iThink said: I said "may not" as in i'm not sure.
Oh, I see..I agree, then.
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Sleepwalker
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Re: Is emotion a necessity? [Re: 4896744]
#14563266 - 06/05/11 04:50 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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iThink said: I said "may not" as in i'm not sure. I was just thinking about insects such as ants when i posted that, and i'm not sure i would call ants "emotional" in the sense that humans are. I would consider parrots to have emotion.
Most animals seem to have some sort of emotional system. I would even venture to say that an ant's system of pheromone communication is closer to emotion than intellect, but don't take my word on it. I'm just feeling that out, I haven't studied ants in depth or anything.
Anyway my real point is, I think human emotions are something more altogether than most other animals due to our more complex symbolic intellect. Emotions are not separate from thought, and in fact the two systems feed on each other. Feeling a certain emotion can cause thoughts to surface, and likewise a certain thought can cause emotions to be felt. IMO this is one of the main reasons why humans are such an unbalanced race; we have trouble letting our feelings pass.
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