Posted by Estella on May 18, 2006, at 4:45:42
In reply to Re: opinion survey » Estella, posted by Phillipa on May 17, 2006, at 22:57:53
> Estella I'm going to make this real simple right now as I'm tired.
thats cool, thanks for your response.
sorry if i got a bit incoherant...
had a busy day with pre talk for seminar then seminar then fairly much compulsory off to the pub (one pint later...). so i might still be incoherant... but i didn't want people to think i was ignoring them...> But yes animals have emotions. My example is that if Greg and I are having a fight not bad that my toy poodle reacts by acting afraid and clinging to one of us.
yeah i think so too. i think the only reason why people say that animals and infants don't have emotions is because they are in the grip of cognitive theory...
but if you can undermine their reasons for believing in cognitive theory (as i think i can by showing that phenomenology / representational content / bodiliy changes / core relational themes can be normative) then they might be willing to go back to their pre theorietical intuititions re animals and infants...
> 2. I think we all experience emotions we are not fully aware of. Sometimes I get anxious and don't realize the reason is that I am mad at Greg and feel threatened that he will abandon me.
yeah. but in that case you are aware of feeling anxious you are just unaware of the cause of your anxiety / what it is that you are anxious about.
do you think you could have an emotion (say anxiety) without being aware that you feel anxious?
or (if your answer to that is yes) then do you think you could be in an emotional state (any kind of emotional state) without being aware that you are in some emotional state or other? (that is just to say that while it might be possible to not know which emotion you are having you couldn't be having an emotion without knowing that you are having some emotion or other)?
you did great :-)
thanks :-)
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