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2+2=5: A Case For Agnostic-Atheism
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<blockquote data-quote="Sinister" data-source="post: 122245" data-attributes="member: 2684"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">*UGH*…O.K look, I don’t want to hijack this thread but scientifically/rationally you are absolutely wrong.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">f</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Your premise “Emotion is the enemy of morality. Morality needs to be approached coldly and rationally, sans emotion” is illogical, in and of itself. It is illogical because you lack an understanding of the physiological role emotions play in the workings of the human mind. </span></span></p><p><FONT size=3><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><?"urn:<img src="http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/ /></FONT></FONT></P><P><FONT face=" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="font-size: 12px">Emotions are not phenomena within the brain itself but involve physiological changes of the whole body (look at the post you made at the beginning of this thread…it agrees with this premise). Humans are given two tools, emotion and reason that help make a moral decision.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The limbic system (Paleomamalian brain), which includes; the hippocampus, amygdala and anterior thalamic nuclei support a variety of functions that include initiating and realizing emotions, behaviour and memory.</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In fact, memory and context is impossible without emotional arousal. You would not even recall a moral decision if not for being aroused emotionally. In fact ‘selectivity of attention’ is an emotional process as well. Without emotions and firing of your limbic system someone like you and me cannot even narrowly define spatio-cognitive cues. You wouldn’t even be able to read my post.</span></span></em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The basolateral amygdala is the part that is essential for ‘emotional memory’ consolidation via the stria terminalis pathway to the nucleus basalis and nucleus accumbens…the stress hormones adrenaline and glucocorticoids – in low, acute concentrations, not sustained high levels – act in basolateral amygdala to enhance memory consiladation. As always synaptic potentiation requires NMDA receptors and a coincidence of pre- and postsynaptic depolarization. However, the potentiation process is greatly facilitated by the local release of dopamine. The amygdala is not the storage site of long-term emotional memories, and may not even be needed for their recall. It is however necessary for the initial consolidation of the memory itself.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If indeed, which I highly doubt, your moral decisions were free from emotions (like you say), it would also entail that you did not learn your morals and each decision you make is independent of your memory centers (which physiologically I could prove wrong by sticking you in an functional MRI and yelling unpleasantaries to you for wasting my time).</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Have you ever experienced emotions while you slept?…truth of the matter is only the dreams that are most potently emotionally experienced are the only ones that are remembered…and only the things that are remembered are of any consequence because anything that is not a memory does not exist…and the weird thing is, the only way things in dreams can be constructed is by regurgitating long term memories which were imprinted in a Hebbian synapse by emotions themselves.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Pretty wild, eh?</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Even in Sikhism, something like Langar and Seva were not cold rational experiments of morality conducted by the guru’s. The origins of Langar and Seva come from emotional states...born from love, empathy and compassion. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">“In light of these general functions, we may describe three moral functions of emotions:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">1. Emotions have an epistemic role of initially indicating moral salience and hence the general moral response. Emotional sensitivity helps us to distinguish the moral features of a given situation, and as such serves as an initial moral guide.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">2 Emotions have a motivating role of supporting moral behavior and opposing immoral behavior. In accordance with their general mobilizing role, emotions help us to mobilize the resources needed for moral behavior, which is often not the most convenient course of action.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">3. Emotions have a communicative role of revealing our moral values to others and to ourselves. Since emotions express our profound values, emotional experiences can reveal these values. Taking care of another person with sympathy and compassion can reveal our evaluation of the person to ourselves and to the person himself Sometimes we do not know how much we care for someone until emotions such as jealousy, fear, or compassion are generated.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">From: <a href="http://research.haifa.ac.il/~benzeev/emotionsmorality.htm" target="_blank">Emotions and morality</a></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">If you still have not fundamentally grasped the neurophysiological and philosophical importance of emotions in constructing morality, then I am afraid there is not much to say other than you disagree for all the wrong reasons. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Do me a favour and go to the above link, read, understand and evaluate it until you know what you want to say, because you sound confused and coldly irrational.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">And why is rationality cold by the way? You weren’t using emotion to describe rationality were you?…cause that would be very very ironic</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sinister, post: 122245, member: 2684"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]*UGH*…O.K look, I don’t want to hijack this thread but scientifically/rationally you are absolutely wrong.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]f[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Your premise “Emotion is the enemy of morality. Morality needs to be approached coldly and rationally, sans emotion” is illogical, in and of itself. It is illogical because you lack an understanding of the physiological role emotions play in the workings of the human mind. [/SIZE][/FONT] <FONT size=3>[FONT=Times New Roman]<?"urn:[IMG]http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/ /></FONT></FONT></P><P><FONT face=[/IMG][SIZE=3]Emotions are not phenomena within the brain itself but involve physiological changes of the whole body (look at the post you made at the beginning of this thread…it agrees with this premise). Humans are given two tools, emotion and reason that help make a moral decision.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The limbic system (Paleomamalian brain), which includes; the hippocampus, amygdala and anterior thalamic nuclei support a variety of functions that include initiating and realizing emotions, behaviour and memory.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][I][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]In fact, memory and context is impossible without emotional arousal. You would not even recall a moral decision if not for being aroused emotionally. In fact ‘selectivity of attention’ is an emotional process as well. Without emotions and firing of your limbic system someone like you and me cannot even narrowly define spatio-cognitive cues. You wouldn’t even be able to read my post.[/SIZE][/FONT][/I][/B] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The basolateral amygdala is the part that is essential for ‘emotional memory’ consolidation via the stria terminalis pathway to the nucleus basalis and nucleus accumbens…the stress hormones adrenaline and glucocorticoids – in low, acute concentrations, not sustained high levels – act in basolateral amygdala to enhance memory consiladation. As always synaptic potentiation requires NMDA receptors and a coincidence of pre- and postsynaptic depolarization. However, the potentiation process is greatly facilitated by the local release of dopamine. The amygdala is not the storage site of long-term emotional memories, and may not even be needed for their recall. It is however necessary for the initial consolidation of the memory itself.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]If indeed, which I highly doubt, your moral decisions were free from emotions (like you say), it would also entail that you did not learn your morals and each decision you make is independent of your memory centers (which physiologically I could prove wrong by sticking you in an functional MRI and yelling unpleasantaries to you for wasting my time).[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Have you ever experienced emotions while you slept?…truth of the matter is only the dreams that are most potently emotionally experienced are the only ones that are remembered…and only the things that are remembered are of any consequence because anything that is not a memory does not exist…and the weird thing is, the only way things in dreams can be constructed is by regurgitating long term memories which were imprinted in a Hebbian synapse by emotions themselves.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Pretty wild, eh?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Even in Sikhism, something like Langar and Seva were not cold rational experiments of morality conducted by the guru’s. The origins of Langar and Seva come from emotional states...born from love, empathy and compassion. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]“In light of these general functions, we may describe three moral functions of emotions:[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]1. Emotions have an epistemic role of initially indicating moral salience and hence the general moral response. Emotional sensitivity helps us to distinguish the moral features of a given situation, and as such serves as an initial moral guide.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]2 Emotions have a motivating role of supporting moral behavior and opposing immoral behavior. In accordance with their general mobilizing role, emotions help us to mobilize the resources needed for moral behavior, which is often not the most convenient course of action.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]3. Emotions have a communicative role of revealing our moral values to others and to ourselves. Since emotions express our profound values, emotional experiences can reveal these values. Taking care of another person with sympathy and compassion can reveal our evaluation of the person to ourselves and to the person himself Sometimes we do not know how much we care for someone until emotions such as jealousy, fear, or compassion are generated.”[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]From: [URL="http://research.haifa.ac.il/~benzeev/emotionsmorality.htm"]Emotions and morality[/URL][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]If you still have not fundamentally grasped the neurophysiological and philosophical importance of emotions in constructing morality, then I am afraid there is not much to say other than you disagree for all the wrong reasons. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Do me a favour and go to the above link, read, understand and evaluate it until you know what you want to say, because you sound confused and coldly irrational.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]And why is rationality cold by the way? You weren’t using emotion to describe rationality were you?…cause that would be very very ironic[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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