PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Emotions
2 Apr 2016
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October 26th, 2015 the nature of emotion. Tears well up, throat chokes bodily proponent/experience. Conflict with our rational side: reason and emotion, example, getting involved with the bad" guy although you know it contradicts your moral side. Suggests that there is a gap between our rational and emotional side. Takes seriously that emotions are a bodily/physical thing that are distinct from our rational side. My theory is that our feeling of [bodily changes] as they occur is the emotion . Emotions are closely related to other bodily sensations. Emotions are close to things like pain: pain is simply a state in which we are becoming aware of things happening in our body namely, something is deteriorating our body. Physiological changes that happen to your body. There seem to be a lot of distinct emotions but not enough distinct responses. The schacter singer (1962) experiment: same physical response.
