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From: mwd@cray.com (Mark Dalton)
Subject: Re: Emotions?
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Date: 28 Dec 94 11:25:14 CST

Jon S Bratseth (bratseth@idt.unit.no) wrote:

: Imagine a person showing the same external reactions as you to the same
: stimuli, and using the same words for different stimuli/reactions as
: you do, but having completely different (or even no) internal sensations
: tied to the words. The point is, you would never know.
: The intersubjective part of emotion words is the stimuli/respons part.
: The internal sensations is not covered by the language.

: Maybe some of you should consider reading some Wittgenstein?
: I think that words like "emotions" and "conciousness" is
: used without much caution around here...

I wrote a paper on the relativity of pain in college for some philosphy
course (nothing astounding).  But the basic idea is that each persons
'feels' things differently, based on past experience (of the emotion,
the topic that aroused the emotion, the people involved, and many other
things that associate with the former), current state (mentally,emotionally,
physically,etc.).

	The basics are 'stimulus/response', but the 'feel' is much more
involved with the whole system of the perceived past and present.

I read a bit of Wittgenstein (I was a Biology/Philosophy double major).
Also Wittgenstein's "Relativity of Language".  

Mark
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