Re: Emotional Forces?


platopes wrote:
Randy Poe wrote:
platopes wrote:
From whence thought and emotion?

From your brain.

Did they (or the possibility of
their existence) exist in some tangible form in the first elements of
the universe, the way the leaf "exists" in the acorn?

You mean in the sense that the acorn has the code

for the machinery to synthesize leaves?

Yes! And thank you for the phrasing - the code for the machinery to
synthesize. Nice.

Yes, they exist in that sense. The machinery of your

brain knows how to create the electrical signals

which feel like "thought" and "emotion" to you.

It's interesting to me that emotions are referred to as "feelings", a
word which refers to the tangible...just a word, admittedly.
So, somehow, helium etc. had the code for the machinery to synthesize
"thought".

Um, no. When I say your brain contains machinery to think
or produce emotion, I mean your brain. I am not claiming a
balloon full of helium contains this capability, or the code for
such capability.

The DNA in an acorn contains the code for the acorn to grow
into a tree. Take that DNA apart into component atoms,
or even component nucleic acids, and that code is no longer
present. The code is contained in the sequence of nucleic
acids.

- Randy

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