Posted by Estella on May 18, 2006, at 0:52:06
In reply to Re: opinion survey » Estella, posted by sleepygirl on May 17, 2006, at 21:45:38
> > 1. do animals (dogs, cats, rats etc) have emotions? how about human infants?
> absolutely:-)
> well I really don't think you can separate the factors, but the one that jumped out at me maybe as "most significant" was phenomenology, etc, etc
Okay.
I'll try to seperate the factors in a later post...
I'll have to think about how to do that (and I need to do something in about 5 minutes...) but I'll get back to it...
> > 3. are unconscious emotions possible?
> I think so. In my experience that's a wholehearted YES!!Okay... Though... If phenomenology (the felt quality) is conscious... And the phenomenology is necessary and sufficient for emotion... Then it would seem that emotions would have to be conscious (by definition).
Maybe Freud's notion of the unconscious is part of common sense intuition now...
But maybe you want a cluster concept view (where cognition and bodily state and phenomenology are all parts of emotion and thus if you have the relevant cognition and bodily changes and the absence of phenomenology then you would have an unconscious emotion).
I'll get back to that issue.
Thanks for your response :-)
poster:Estella
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