emotion

Inspired by another thread; I didn't see this addressed anywhere else specifically. Forgive me if I missed it. What is love? What exactly causes our minds/hormones/bodies to overreact when a certain person is around? I'm referring specifically to romantic love, because as Dawkins pointed out so...

I've become interesting in finding natural emotional suppressants, just to explore how life would be like without emotion. I stumbled across Lithium, after I researched the meaning of the old Evanescence song. It turns out that Lithium consumed over lengthy periods of time suppresses emotional...

On September 11, 2001, My partner and I arrived back to Hong Kong from LAX on UA2, got back to our apartment directly from the airport, switched on the TV, and watched, stunned, as the events of that day unfolded. We saw it all. From the first reports to the end. I didn't sleep for 2 days. Maybe...

What happens in the human body between when you hear music and when the emotion starts. And why can, say, one person be moved to tears by a classical piece of music they'd never heard before, whereas another finds, say, Celine Dion's I Will Always Love You very touching? I started this thread...

Emotional atheists and logical atheists. It seems there are atheists who don't believe in God because He's illogical. I have shown in earlier threads why logic and reason are tools of Satan. He makes God seem illogical so you won't believe in Him. This is why Jesus said you have to have the...

The issue has arisen of whether all facets of life, including the mind and emotions, can be described logically in terms of standard scientific terms. This would be both reductionistic and materialistic. The benefit of this discussion is for artificial intelligence (AI). If an architecture...

Under what circumstances is logic the correct tool to use to make a decision? When is emotion more correct to use to make a decision? Under what circumstances are "appeals to emotion" the correct argument? IndigoRose

Has anyone heard of Candace Pert and her recent book "Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine"? Pert is a scientist whose book apparently supports certain alternative "medicine" beliefs, and the woo woos are referring to it as proof of something or other. The book is...