Intuition and artistic expression as a function of intellect and emotion

Pt. 1 - Descarte's Error:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuyv34Z7tIs

Ziggiecrow segment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLTZm_6qRME

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 3; Episode 10
Title: The Defector
Production #158
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TNG/detail/68422.html
La Forge: I dont know, Data. My gut tells me we ought to be listening to what this guys trying to tell us.
Data: Your gut?
La Forge: Its just a . . . a feeling, you know, an instinct, intuition.
Data: But these qualities would interfere with rational judgment. Would they not?
La Forge: Youre right, sometimes they do.
Data: Then why not rely strictly on the facts?
La Forge: Because you just cant rely on the plain and simple facts. Sometimes they lie.
Data: They can lead to the wrong conclusions but they cannot lie.
La Forge: Yeah, what do you think? Is he a defector or not?
Data: The facts to date would lead to the objective conclusion that he is not.
La Forge: Well . . . somehow I think were going to catch the Romulans with their pants down on Nelvana III, just like he says.
Data: With their pants . . . ?
La Forge: A metaphor. Catching them in the act.
Data: Because your gut tells you so?
La Forge: Exactly. But you cant always go with your gut, either. Its . . . Well, its a combination, Data. All right, Ill put it to you this way. All these feelings that get in the way of human judgment, that confuse the hell out of us that make us second guess ourselves well, we need them. We need them to . . . help us fill in the missing pieces because we almost never have all the facts.
Data: So a person fills in the missing pieces of the puzzle with his own personality, resulting in a conclusion based as much on instinct and intuition as on fact.
La Forge: Now youre getting it.
Data: Hmm . . . But what does one do if he has no instinct or intuition?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• premed2
• Descarte's
• Error
• Antonio
• Damasio
• intuition
• artistic
• expression
• intellect
• emotion
• poetry
• art

[CaptainFrantic]

My friend and I had a drunken conversation last night about objectivity and subjectivity. It appears to me that there are some similarities to the emotion and reason debate there.

Can I go back to nursing my hangover now please?

[premed2]

Please do. But consider this. It may just be a subjective hangover. In other words its all in your head.

[heatherlynblue]

i love the flower in you.

what a beautiful gesture... made only more beautiful by its solitude. big sister has my heart.

[premed2]

what a beautiful thing to say.

[MrEndoftimes1]

intellectuales are a dying breed my friend,

wars, hate, and the injustices in this world are enough to make many wise men act foolishly.

Their is so much poison in todays society, everything from music, to cartoons, mostly all designed to infect the mind with nonsense.

[premed2]

LOL

[daleshankins]

I get dibs on purple. :p

[premed2]

i guess there's no fooling you...

SHES FUCKING THE DEAD!!!!! alright already?

after all, why do you think they call those old geezers stiffs?

[jogayot]

frolicing with forgotten souls is even more carnal than empty shells of the bodies ;) after all the mind is where the turn on is.

[premed2]

>I wouldn't call it "you" anymore.

If you read Desecrates Error you may change your mind—I did.

Thanks, but I go for the quality subscribers. ;)