We Can Be More Or Less Conscious

Leaving Out Appraisal Also Would Render The Biological Description Of The Phenomena Of Emotion Vulnerable To The Caricature That Emotions Without An Appraisal Phase Are Meaningless Events. It Would Be More Difficult To See How Beautiful And Amazingly Intelligent Emotions Can Be, And How Powerfully They Can Solve Problems For Us.

I Got Interested In The Emotions After Studying Patients Who Had Lost The Ability To Emote And Feel Under Certain Circumstances. Many Of Those Patients Also Had Major Impairments In Their Ability To Make Decisions.

You Know, Mind Allows Us To Portray In Different Sensory Modalities, Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, You Name It, What We Are Like And What The World Is Like. But This Very, Very Important Quality Of Subjectivity, This Quality That Allows Us To Take A Distant View And Say, "i Am Here, I Exist, I Have A Life And There Are Things Around Me That Refer To Me." That Me-ness, M-e-hyphen, That Is What Really Constitutes Consciousness.

There's Something That Intervenes And Is Very Important Which Has To Do With Value. Value In The True Biological Sense, Which Is That Contrary To What Many People Seem To Think, Taking It At Face Value - Sorry For The Pun - We Do Not Give The Same Amount Of Emotional Significance To Every Event.

Although When You Look At People That Say, From The Same Culture, Roughly The Same Age, And Not Very Difference Intelligence, And You Make A Lot Of Detailed Questions About The Experiences Of Say Colors, Situations, And So On, You'll Get Very Similar Answers.