If fear comes from the reptillian brain, while the mammilian brain handles "emotions," does this mean it is possible that fear is more of a physiological state rather than an actual "emotion?" Or does it merely mean fear is the oldest emotion? How many emotions can the brain generate? Or could almost every state of mind be classified as some variance of an "emotion?"
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LTE2007-02-14 22:35
It's purely mental, therefore, arguing non-existance. Thoughts are not tangible, therefore, cannot be ACCURATELY explained.
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Anonymous2007-02-14 22:54
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But scientists CAN classify certain things as emotions in certain professions. Maybe not psychology but some fusion of neurology and psychology. I'd be interested to know what the actual scientific community would classify different brain functions and mental states as. Of course it would be more of a subjective type of science, but anything about the mind has to be.
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Anonymous2007-02-15 4:27
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That is inherently antiscientific thinking. We can already monitor brain activity; some day, we'll no doubt be able to track exactly which neurons are firing and what effect they are having on the body.
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If you smack someone over the head really hard the properties of their "thoughts" change. So it obviously has something to do with the brain. This is what we are studying here.
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Anonymous2007-02-15 17:38
Fear scares me
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Anonymous2007-02-15 18:55
Fear is an instinct of survival, like pain.
It tells us, as animals, that something isn't right, and that we need to take care of it through the traditional "fight or flight" behaviour.
It may be a primitive emotion, it may just be something hardwired into the brain. There's no way of knowing just yet.