(C.1) Emotion is a
subjective sensation in our mind prompted
by consciousness in time present or consciousness of
time past previously stored memory of
sensate things and actions in our environment
in time past. One, some, or all our physical senses may
cause the effect of emotions to
present in our mind.
Note: An extensive list of emotions are included in the Appendix.
(C.2) The perception of the degree or intensity of emotion varies
widely depending upon the action that prompts the emotion.
Emotions, being nimbus the intensity of emotion is
incapable of being measured directly. However the presence of
certain chemicals in the brain can be correlated with emotions and
their intensity.
(C.3) Emotions cannot be described by language
they are what we shall call ineffable, that is to say,
beyond the capacity of words to describe them. Indeed, they arise from
objective chemicals states of the brain. As a consequence all emotions are
private. No one can know the sensation of an emotion that
another experiences. And, indeed, emotions and their intensity
vary widely among individuals when a specific action or thing
is observed.
(C.4). The mind is capable of distinguishing between
different sensations of emotions.
The list of words in the appendix are commonly used to mean the
kinds of emotion but is not claimed to be inclusive of
all emotions.
Emotions appear to exist is pairs of
opposites, thus making them useful in deciding cause and
effect actions in response to them. Examples include the emotions
of pleasure and pain, love and hate, fear and surprise and anticipation.
Two or more emotions may be
amalgamated in the mind to produce complex emotions.
Example include disgust and anger combining to produce contempt and anticipation
and joy combining to produce optimism. As such the number of possible complex
emotions and possible cause and effect actions in
response to them is large and varied.
(C.5). Emotions being nimbus, it is impossible to know if
an specific emotion experienced any one person is the same
the same sensation as that experienced by any other person
(C.6) The same thing and action experienced
by each person can produce different and even opposite emotions in
different persons. As an example, the presence of a policeman can
elicit the emotion of fear in some and comfort in others.
(C.7) Emotions are not static and those of any one
person can change over intervals of time as a result
of new perceptions of actions, things or
other emotions.
(C.8) Emotion for things or actions about
which person has knowledge either directly through experience
or indirectly through language or media is not
possible. They are subjective responses to observation of
objective things and actions.
(C.9) Chemical changes in the neural systems in the brain
have been associated with different sensations of emotions,
but no cause and effect relationship between the subjective sensation of
emotion itself and the objective actions of
humans has ever been established as knowledge.
Chemical changes in the brain, however, have been
associated with actions associated with emotions.
And certain chemical introduced in the neural systems of the brain can
produce sensations of emotion without subjective
observations. Examples include consumption of alcohol that
can induce the negative emotions of aggression and
depression as well as temporarily
induce the positive emotions of confidence and relaxation.
These changes in emotions are entirely related
to chemical changes within the brain with no sensory
data being input from actions in the physical environment
causing them to change. Indeed, nothing has changed except
the chemistry producing the perception of the emotions
and the resultant responses to the emotions. That
is to say emotions are various chemical states of matter within
the brain perceived by the brain as sensations.
(C.10) Aesthetics is a collection of emotions in
response to sensory inputs from things and actions in
the environment, especially those created by human actions.
Aesthetic are subjective and not universal. What is beautiful to
one may be ugly to another. Music that is sublime to some may be jarring
to others. Beauty, indeed, is in the eye of the beholder.
Further, aesthetics may be the cause of
different effects that result in different actions,
if any, by each person. As an example, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa may
elicit a smile while Picasso's
(C.11) Not only are human actions driven by emotions
associated with subjective aesthetics,
but all human actions arising from consciousness are
driven by emotions, especially those associated with subjective morals. Indeed the like and
dislike of aesthetics and the good
and evil of morals are both driven by emotions with
the electrochemical processes of the brain deciding
which of two or more conflicting emotions will prevail.
That is to say, emotions are the root cause of the effect
of all human actions.>We
are the slaves of our emotions.
Like the actions of the amoeba responding to the outside
world, the actions of human responding to the outside world
are the product of chemistry processes in the body of living
organism resulting from awareness of the outside word. In
the case of humans which possess a brain the response my be
the direct result of (like that of the amoeba) or may be
the indirect result awareness after having passes
through consciousness and the filter of emotions in
a deterministic fashion.
(C) All conscious human actions arise from the phenomenon of subjective emotions created by chemical processes in the brain in response to objective experiences gained in the outside world. Valuations of opposing emotions in the brain during consciousness give rise to which actions result in a deterministic fashion.