Rationality and emotions

This short statement by da Vinci clearly reveals his understanding of the supreme importance of vision. At the same time, it is an excellent example of his own sensazione. The use of metaphor and of emotionally charged words ( the beauty of the whole world ) creates a complex rational and emotional description of the sense of vision and its significance. Da Vinci also claimed that looking is not enough, however. He wrote. 

In sociology the "microscopic details of the complex interplay of rational and emotional, conscious and subconscious, genetic and environmental influences on individual decisions are unknown. It has been seen, (1.13, 16), that in... 

The New never grows from nowhere, but is rooted in the Old and Unexpected. The latter is a function of curiosity and emotional not rational involvement in the subject. We hope that the following chapters will stimulate emotion and thought, and provoke new systematic and empirical research. The dilemma is that in one sense, we as humans abhor speculation and the unknown, but that in another sense, as scientists, we need the speculative as life needs water. Curiosity drives us and fills the gap. And fortunately, theories pass over, but the frog persists, as Jean Rostand expressed so succinctly the relation between conjecture and refutation [ Les theories passent, la grenouille reste. Carnets d un biologiste]. 

Johnson-Laird. Philip, and Keith Oatley. 1992. "Basic Emotions, Rationality, and Folk Theory." Cognition and Emotion 6 201-23. 

Storytelling can suggest new. parsimonious explanations. Suppose that someone asserts that self-sacrificing or helping behavior is conclusive proof that not all action is self-interested or that emotional behavior is conclusive proof that not all action is rational.- One might conclude that there are three irreducibly different forms of behavior rational and selfish, rational and nonselfish, and irrational. The drive for parsimony that characterizes good science should lead us to question this view. Could it not be in one s self-interest to help others Could it not be... 

It is as if we were designed to be rational (but cool) and irrational (but hot) by turns. How difficult it is, at all times, and in all states, to maintain the balance between reason and emotion. Among the subcortical systems that we suppose might be less powerfully activated during... 

Chronic PCP users report all kinds of social problems. The behavioral and emotional changes that occur often lead to social withdrawal and isolation, divorce, and disassociation from family and friends. PCP abuse impairs the user s ability to think rationally, which often results in job loss. As a result of the physical and social consequences, depression often develops. 

During this period, the flow of consciousness, microscopically clear and intense, is interrupted by fleeting attempts to rationalize and interpret. But the normal game-playing ego is not functioning effectively. There exist, therefore, unlimited possibilities for, on the one hand, delightful sensuous, intellectual and emotional novelties if one floats with the current and, on the other hand, fearful ambuscades of confusion and terror if one tries to impose his will on the experience. 

In children, the causes of this despair and loss of hope are almost always apparent in the first consultation session, providing it involves the family and includes an evaluation of the child s school life. In children, depression almost always revolves around problems at school and in the home, everything from bullying at school and abuse at home to academic school failure, painful peer relationships, and family conflicts over how to raise the child. The treatment of depression in children requires, first, finding out how and why the child became depressed and, second, helping the child, the family, the school, and all the other participants in the child s life restore hope in the child. Children have many needs, including a stable family, rational discipline, unconditional love, stimulating educational environments, physical security, and emotional safety. The object of therapy is to identify the unmet needs and to help adults meet them. 

In the disillusionment phase, however, depression and hopelessness may become more prominent, as the reality of how life has changed postdisaster becomes ever more apparent. The enormous drain of reserves— physical, financial, and emotional—takes its toll. Adults may experience physical reactions such as headaches, increased blood pressure, ulcers, gastrointestinal problems, and sleep disorders. Emotional reactions may vacillate between emotional numbness and expressions of intense emotion. Anxiety and depression are common emotional reactions, as are anger and frustration— sometimes displaced onto relief workers when anger about the disaster seems less rational. The reconstruction phase gradually becomes more apparent as intense emotions are replaced by a sense of acceptance, increasing independence, and emotional reinvestment in relationships and activities of daily life. 

The primary value in this scheme is rationality, adherence to logic and values our culture believes are true. The scheme recognizes that the ordinary state is occasionally neurotic, in that rationality is often replaced by rationalization of processes based on unconscious drives and emotions. If only we could be cured of these occasional neurotic flaws, it is reasoned, we could be completely rational (although we do not like "completely rational" to being equated with being computerlike). Dreaming is a lower d-SoC because there are many logical flaws in it and the dreamer is out of touch with (consensus) reality. 

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