From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 22:48:04 BST
Sam, Nic and all:
dmb said to Sam:
I guess it depends on what, exactly, the word "emotion" means to you. But in
the normal sense of the word, they are something that adults learn to
control and manage for higher purposes. Not that we can avoid them, we just
learn how to better deal with them. I'm sure you know that teaching such
control a huge part of raising children. As a adults we can sort out our
feelings as a means of self-examination. They stay with us and guide us even
in our mature lives, but that doesn't mean they're intellectual level
values. It just means that intellectuals have feelings too.
Sam replied:
Which seems to me that you are, in a much more sophisticated way, arguing
that emotions are impediments to cognitive functioning. Which is what I'm
objecting to. To reassure me that you're not (if you want to) why don't you
spell out how and why you see emotions as having a cognitive role?
dmb says:
I'm only saying we have to walk before we run. I'm only saying that if one
does not have a normal emotional development, all the higher stages will
suffer. In other words, to the extect that a person is neurotic, they'll
have a very hard time with seemingly unrelated cognitive functions like
logic and rationality, that such cognitve skills require a healthy emotional
foundation. So I'm not saying that emotions interfere with intellect, per
se. I'm saying that emotional dysfunction has effects all the way up the
ladder.
I've noticed an interesting set of examples by simply watching the talking
heads on cable news shows. Once in a while you hear a full grown,
middle-aged man whose vocal qualites remind me of a child. This is
completely seperate from WHAT they are saying. I only refer to the actual
acoustic characterixtics of their voice. It must have something to do with
the actual structure and shape of their vocal chords. Sure, everybody has
their own voice, but I'm talking about a distinctive child-like quality. And
there is a real reason for this strange phemonenon. I've read that children
who are incested, suffer a great loss or are otherwise traumatized will
often stop developing in certain areas. The arrested development of the
vocal chords is just one of the more overt manifestations of this
retardation of growth. And its not a co-incidence that the people who
exhibit this strange vocal quality very often hold very wacky and irrational
views. Check it out for yourself. When you hear that strange child-like
voice coming from a hulk of man pay close attention and tell me what you
see.
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