Posted: Nov 27, 2016 11:11 am
WeirdPattern2.0 wrote:Hello. This is my first post, I hope I'm post this in the right place.
A friend linked me the following video on facebook and I'm looking for a place to seriously discuss the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXDw73rToPE&t=0s
Even though the video is very hyped and presents little evidence, it still got me thinking.I consider myself a strong rational thinker (& atheist), but then what about my emotions?
I can't deny having emotional parts in my brain (amygdala, limbic system, ...), yet they can go against my reason. This poses a contradiction as I can't both be completely reasonable without amputation my emotional brain regions.
Would like to hear some thoughts on this.
What about your emotions? They're there because they've got their part to play in your functioning in the world. What you want to avoid is acting completely from your emotions. There are lots of different facets of life. For most of them, what you want is a balance of emotion and reason/logic. For a few of them, you want to get as close to only reason/logic as you can possibly get, however I would contend that emotion will still play a part, for example, in terms of empathy and therefore ethics. In my view, you never want to operate on nothing but emotion.