Complete list of emotions.

[HamaticBabylon]

Please explain this statement. It makes no sense.

That's why i said "ignore that"

 

[Perfection]

I compleatly dissagrea.

For example, laziness does not relte to ignorance at all.

You could be compleatly aware and still be lazy.

Laziness is a trait not an emotion

Nope.

In fact, I'd say most emotions are reactions to knowledge.

Only reactions to partial knowledge, ignorance is still the key factor! With no knowledge one must rely on all emotion with all knowledge no emotion is neccesary!

Please explain this statement. It makes no sense.

Sure it does

 

[newfangle]

An emotion is a chemical precurser designed to overwhelm all reason and logic.

When some uses an emotion instead of their head to make a decision, bad things happen. i.e. The women who continually returns to her abusive husband.

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Nobody (as far as I can see) has mentioned one of the most important emotions: empathy. The emotion that provides us with some degree of moral connection between each other and seperates us from psychopaths.

 

[cgannon64]

Only reactions to partial knowledge, ignorance is still the key factor! With no knowledge one must rely on all emotion with all knowledge no emotion is neccesary!

All we can have is partial knowledge, and so emotion is pretty much all we have.

With no knowledge I don't think there is any emotion involved - it is purely arbitrary.

 

[Perfection]

All we can have is partial knowledge, and so emotion is pretty much all we have.

But the more knowledge you get the less you need stupid emotions!

With no knowledge I don't think there is any emotion involved - it is purely arbitrary.

No, it's that emotion is very arbitrary!

 

[Narz]

Perfection, Newfangle, do you aspire to be robots?

Why must emotion and reason be seperated. You can use your reason to "win" in life, whatever that means to you, but what's the point in winning if you don't enjoy (aka - feel good about) it?

 

[Narz]

An emotion is a chemical precurser designed to overwhelm all reason and logic.

C'mon now, I know you're intelligent enough not to really believe that.

Emotions stem from thought. True they sometimes stem from erroneous beliefs (such as - to use your example, 'I can't make it on my own, my husband beats me but I need him').

Emotions basically amplify our thoughts so we pay attention to them. For example a thought might be - that girl is cute. A simply thought like that would get lost in the mix so the mind adds emotion, perhaps lust, desire, excitement to get us to act. Action without emotional contact lacks power, anyone who's listened to a professor with a monotone voice can attest to this.

We didn't evolve to be emotional creatures accidentally. Obviously strong emotion has helped us (the human race) survive. The most intelligent animals are also the mostly highly emotional.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Emotions are just chemical/electrical reactions.

Trust humans to get all melodramatic and sentimental about it!

And chemical/electrical reactions are just atoms and molecules bumping around.
And atoms are just sub atomic dervishes twirling in mostly empty space.
And sub atomic particles are mostly quarks which are mostly nothing.

 

[Akka]

Emotions are simply something you feel in you, which motivate you to do something (be it to kiss, to flee, to show off or anything).
Likely, reason is a logical process that motivate you to consider something.

Each one (reason and emotion) urge you to do a particular thing.

Sometimes, the emotionnal pulsion supercede reason in a bad way ("oh damn, I know I should work, but I feel definitely too lazy to do it. Later."). Other times, it's the opposite (people overanalyzing their every feeling, who end up being only empty shells enjoying nothing, or rationnalizing to the point their lose the connection with the world).

Anyway, we are humans, and we feel life. Reason is a way to direct emotions, certainly not something that should REPLACE them.

 

[IglooDame]

An emotion is a chemical precurser designed to overwhelm all reason and logic.

When some uses an emotion instead of their head to make a decision, bad things happen. i.e. The women who continually returns to her abusive husband.

Heroics aren't ordinarily logical, either - the person that will risk (or give) their own life to save another being the best example. However, I agree with you that in most cases it is better to use reasoning to make decisions.

We didn't evolve to be emotional creatures accidentally. Obviously strong emotion has helped us (the human race) survive. The most intelligent animals are also the mostly highly emotional.

Is patriotism (and I use it in the larger sense to mean loyalty to the group rather than the individual, not in the nationalistic sense) a result of emotion? I was getting ready to object that use of tools and abstract thinking have gotten the human race a heck of a lot farther than extreme happiness, anger, and sadness, but one could argue that group loyalty has indeed helped.

 

[Hakim]

Is repression an emotion/feeling? As I understand the word, it is when a person de-matures (becoming less mature) because of a severe setback (like breakup). I think it's hard to actually feel immature, you either feel more mature than others or on level with them.

Edit: I can't find support on the net for the definition above, perhaps I'm mistaken.

Confusion is an emotion I'd like to add, if that fits into the definition.

 

[Akka]

(don't you mean reGression ?)

 

[Hakim]

Could be, I'm not sure. What's repression then?

 

[CurtSibling]

And chemical/electrical reactions are just atoms and molecules bumping around.
And atoms are just sub atomic dervishes twirling in mostly empty space.
And sub atomic particles are mostly quarks which are mostly nothing.

Exactly my point!

 

[Birdjaguar]

If we are no greater than the sum of the parts, we add up to mostly nothing. And on second thought, mustn't we treat reason the same: a chemical/electrical reaction amounting to nothing?

 

[Akka]

Could be, I'm not sure. What's repression then?

Using force and coercion over people to prevent them to contest your rule, more or less.

 

[Hakim]

I did see that definition, but I thought that was oppression

 

[Akka]

Well, "oppression" is to actually rules as a despot.
"repression" is to crush a movement that is trying to contest your rule.