Why We Feel - The science Of Human Emotions, by Victor S. Johnston

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Uploaded by on Sep 18, 2011

I read the preface of "Why We Feel - The science Of Human Emotions", by Victor S. Johnston.

Everyone should read this book. I wish I could read it all to you, but I would probably break the copyright a bit too much by doing that. Also, who wants to listen to a swede trying to read a whole book in english, right?

Anyway, enjoy.

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  • Great stuff. I think consciousness is almost a form of evolutionary biological based software. We are an application of the human brain and having a aware, free thinking consciousness turned out to be more efficient than a total sub-conscious mind which some species such as jellyfish may contain.

    Though I often wonder how we can so easily distinguish between positive & negative properties of emotions. perhaps that's part of the biological based software.

  • @deanmullen10 Our consciousness allows us to retrieve memories and evaluate then, and combine them with memories of other things to create new information. This is the basis of creativity, and one of the main things that sets us apart from most animals. Our frontal lobe (your forehead) houses the consciousness. Most other animals do not have the wiring needed to retrieve and combine memories in this way.

    This means we can solve problems in our minds, instead of simply using trial-and-error.

  • Very interesting. In my opinion, i believe that most, if not all, emotions are pretty useless to be honest. They just seem to cause complications to our natural human instincts.

  • @thesacrament77 There are supposed to complement our instics. However, recent knowledge shows that we aren't born the way we are, but rather formed by our environment. Things we took for granted as unchangeable has turned out to be environmental. Our environment activates different parts of our DNA as we grow up, allowing us to become the kind of person that fits the environment. This is true to a much greater part in humans than in animals, probably because our brain is so central to us.

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