Sam, all
> It seems to me that there is a choice, quite a radical difference, between
> acknowledging a role for emotions in our intellectual processes (and
> therefore ruling out the categorising of emotions as purely biological
> phenomena)
The first statement does not necessarily lead to the conclusion in
parentheses. Each higher level evolves from and yet is interrelated with
and dependant on the lower for existence.
When we get into talking about the various levels of static quality and
what is resident where it is easy to forget that Quality=Reality and it
takes all of it working together to make up what is a human being. I
just don't see what is so revolutionary about the concept of emotions,
(rooted, emanating, or resident in the biological level) affecting
intellectual activities (even the rational ones) any more than saying
oxygen affects intellectual activity. If we place a human in a sealed
room and slowly decrease the level of oxygen to zero we can reasonable
expect that all its intellectual activities will stop. Should this lead
one to conclude that oxygen is an intellectual value? I don't think so.
3WD
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