does anyone have any good links to readings on why emotions matter? I don't think I need to learn, but I want a reference to be able to point to in the future.
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I am not convinced that people, generally, are yet good at talking about this.
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This sounds like a challenge, so I'd like to give it a shot. My model, which I have yet to find a contradiction for based on my experience, is that emotions are the core mechanism (at least) humans use to derive value from experience.
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Even our words leak signs the intrinsic connection emotions have to every aspect of our life. Experience is often described in ways of feeling; it felt bad, it felt good, it felt exciting. Without emotions, in my opinion, there would be no motivation to do.
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I've thought a lot about this because of my own trouble with emotions in my past. I used to wish they would disappear, but now I can't imagine finding meaning (as I experience it now) in a world without them.
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yeah, this is why Spock Morality is dumb. reason cannot decide between courses of action; you can reason all the way to "this course of action will kill me and my entire species" but without an emotional/aesthetic judgment there's nothing to make that option better or worse
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I think this is resting on bad definitions of "reason" and "emotion/aesthetics".
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maybe! but i would have to suspect that definitions of "reason" and "emotion/aesthetics" that it couldn't rest on would be less "good" and more "purpose-developed jargon that places reason in a supreme position in a mere obscure technical sense"
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Opposite way around, IMHO: people developed a clean separation between the two in order to "place reason (in a mere technical sense) in a supreme position". Proper definitions should let us avoid the supposed dichotomy.
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well, when you find a proper definition of reason that lets it autonomously make decisions without reliance on irrational "because i said so" faculties like axioms, emotions, value/utility functions, and aesthetics, you @ me
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Who says emotions, values, and aesthetics are irrational?
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idk, everybody i guess? sounds like you have some real good definitions in mind!
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