In the words of French philosopher Francois de La Rochefoucauld, "If we resist our passion, it is more due to their weakness than our strength." Emotions also play a significant role in intellectual abilities, as feelings-based decision-making is often superior to artificial intelligence. Yet, while the essential function of recognizing a person is within a range of artificial capabilities, emotions remain elusive.
For example, the emotional nature of memories enables a dog to avoid someone who mistreated it. Emotions are subjective, but their extraordinary decision-making power can help distinguish the perpetrator's face from the police lineup, recognize our childhood home, or the overture of a classical opera. Feelings make consciousness an incomputable process, utterly distinct from the physical processes that accompany it. Therefore, not only the blind but all emotional creatures feel their way around.
Of course, what is scientifically very difficult to propose and prove, philosophers and artists intuitively knew for a long, long time. For example, music is a universal language that conveys emotions. We can identify with a Chinese folk song or an Italian opera aria via the feelings they convey. Because music expresses emotions, it can convey love, but not the stock market or the global economy.
Emotions are not evolutionary accidents but rather the primary motivators and survival tools of animals that possess them. With them, dangers can be overcome, and opportunities can be found. We are good, generous, and trusting because of our emotions. On the other hand, we betray others, commit a crime, and feel remorse because of them. Emotions are much more powerful than we acknowledge, and we often cannot recognize the extent to which they play in our lives because we identify with them. Therefore, emotions are the fundamental forces of motivation. The book Emotional Reasoning: Insight into the Conscious Experience details the role of emotions in mental operations.
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The book Emotional Reasoning: Insight into the Conscious Experience was published on August 30, 2024.
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