Ignis Fatuus wrote:Aren't emotions part of nature. Are they not logical?
Emotions are a part of nature as anything. They are even logical in the way they arise and pass away.
They are the primitive tool for a human collective to store information, pass it around in the community, organize coherent group behavior, and adapt accordingly into their surroundings.
The trouble is in their circular nature and the feedback from primitive motivators such as adrenaline gland. That limits the applicability and reach of it as an algebra. In particular emotions form a noncommutative algebra where emotional attachment can never be reversed regardless of the causes that give rise to them. The only way to advance is to create new 'politics' that respects the sensitivity of earlier lockdown. This gives rise to very coherent group dynamic when the group is small and immediate survival is key. The strongest can draw authority and use oral and territorial signs to drive the politics to their liking.
The difference between emotions and logic is tiny as they employ the same mechanism. Logic is built on the same primitive platform but what it lacks is the clamp that causes the logical conclusion to be final the moment one thinks of it. To the degree the reality is not matched there is pain and remorse.
To borrow from ideas of fractals and chaos: The variation in the initial conditions can never be satisfied as the rehashing only causes the increase in sensitivity to those initial conditions.
Because of the noncommutativity it is much easier to become attached to prematurely ignorant conclusions employing emotion. The ego is too important to an individual that the natural instinct to create a continuation for the immediate living experience must be preserved, with all cost. Emotions are always a sign of this core or some previously agreed lockdown being threatened one way or another; The lockdowns may even be transplanted to other people, so they will take care of them for you! Emotions are only used for the task they evolved for, preservation of self in the flow of immediate experience.
Let him who has ears hear.
