Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: RE: Emotions vs. rational thinking

[Forbes Jan (jan.forbes]

Thanks for this Racheli.  Great stuff!

Jan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Racheli&John [SMTP:jnpalme [at] attglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 September 2001 1:34
> To:   cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject:      [C-L]_RE: Emotions vs. rational thinking
> 
> ** Reply to note from "Brian Baresch" <baresch [at] earthlink.net> Tue, 04 Sep
> 2001 01:06:03 -0500
> 
> From Racheli
> 
> The dichotomy between "rational" and "emotional" is 
> simply false: *There is no such thing* as rational thinking 
> which doesn't involve emotions.  (I realize that many have
> strong emotional attachment to this distinction, which might 
> make it difficult to give it up :)) ...
> 
> Research has shown that when people don't have access
> to emotional input (which happens, for example, in cases
> of certain types of brain injury), they are not able to
> make rational decisions.  For those who are interested
> in this subject, I recommend Antonio D'Amasio's 
> "Descartes' Error". 
> A more recent book by D'Amasio, which I haven't read yet,
> is called: "A Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion 
> in the Making of Consciousness" (published by Harcourt).
> "D'Amasio draws of years of clinical research to make the 
> argument that consciousness arises from our ability to map
> relations between the self and others *through our emotions*"
> (emphasis added).
> 
> R. 
> 
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