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Quote by: The Bacon Guy  Indeed we did. I thought sappho was disputing that emotions are illogical and therefore that morality is illogical, but after reading the last post, I'm not entirely sure what point he was making.
The comment I made about not knowing the origins of thoughts and emotions was with respect to a specific point of sappho's regarding the neurological processes behind thought. We can rationalise the existence of thoughts and emotions evolutionarily and anthropologically, but the neurological (the physical) basis is still largely unknown. That was what I meant. |
I got it, and thank you. But one can consider that since we do not know how the brain creates thoughts and emotions as moot. Since we know that they exist. They are real, no matter how they come about.
Sure, it'd be interesting to understand the physiological processes of how the brain hatches thoughts and emotions. But do we need to know how thoughts and emotions are created to be able figure out how effective they are? I don't think so. Nor do we need to know what brings them about to know that they are crucial to the human condition.
The ancient Greeks probably had thoughts and emotions pretty much figured out.
