Ooooohhh 😮 🙂 and I will respond later

Yet we need not mystify emotions. We can both see emotions as entirely mechanical processes while honoring their sophistication as our first approximation of how-to-be in this reality, and also not use them as exclusively the only source we rely on for our processing and decision-making.

It may be too simple to say we  "need not" mystify em…Read more

I would imagine receiving information from our 1st function would get redundant and mundane. We naturally and reflexively perform (or are) our first function so why dwell on it any further. When I typed at FiSe, I saw Fi as mundane and boring, not worth personally talking about. When I was younger I admired and probably even fetishized Ni and Te…Read more

What are Emotions?

@umbilicalsphere @teatime - Yes, precisely. Umbi you are brilliant.

Where the ethicists have it right is that this bio-computer is immensely relevant to us, and has millennia of wisdom that we should not discard lightly. To say they are "just" bio-chemical algorithms is to undermine something that is highly intelligent, and…Read more

@animal <3

Purr, I love your posts. And I love that you did it holistically. 🙂 Often this is best for me too, but with the Se post I was too divided and wanted to get down to the nitty gritty of the problem I was having with the descriptions.

I figured that was the case :). I loved your post and it was highly informative not just for me but for…Read more

Emotions are (chemical) flags/alerts that the system is out of balance. The alert should be examined because the adjustment may need to be internal, not external. The emotion is meaningful, though the first interpretation may be incorrect.

Basically, Umb's reply simplified 😛

"Flag" and "alert" are terms I used to describe emotions with when I…Read more