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Quote by: Gods_Mercenary  How is love, hate, or happiness logical? You don't reason to come to these emotions, they just pop up and you follow them, often irrationally. While they are controled by scientific responses in the brain, you can't call them logical, they're different for every person. |
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Quote by: wiki In its broadest sense, cognition refers to all mental processes. However, the study of cognition has historically excluded emotion and focused on non-emotional processes (e.g. memory, attention, perception, action, problem solving and mental imagery). As a result, the study of the neural basis of non-emotional and emotional processes emerged as two separate fields: cognitive neuroscience and affective neuroscience. The distinction between non-emotional and emotional processes is now thought to be largely artificial, as the two types of processes often involve overlapping neural and mental mechanisms. Thus, when cognition is taken at its broadest definition, affective neuroscience could also be called the cognitive neuroscience of emotion. |
You are obviously behind the times then. For it is now the case in nueroscience that thinking and emotion result from the same cognitive processes.
Our emotions don't just appear full pelt from the blue. Our emotions are a fine tuned thing that have, just as our thinking, been socialised. Our emotions before being expressed are determined by our mind as to their appropriateness and then altered accordingly.
Our emotions are affected by the same factors affecting thinking such as alcohol and drugs.
Our emotions are valid and logical responses to the external world. Our emotions, I would say, should play a part in moral behaviour.
We should feel loathing when faced with a murderer.
We should temper that loathing when it is learned that the murderer was a victim of DV etc.......
And so it goes for all human actions. We are emotional beings also and this fact needs reflection in our codes of moral conduct.