Sorry, this is not really fitting here, but one of the things I never underrstood was the division between logic and emotion.
Emotion is often seen - as far as Ive experienced it - as a hindrance to logic - to logical explanations of the world around us. A scientist must NOT rely on his emotions or even introduce them into his process of scientific research. Empotion is frowned upon, sometimes even considered something inferior to logic. Logic is for men, emotion is for women, cynical formulated.
Yesterday or the day before I thought : Everything is made up to comply with logic. The way the sciences describe are based upon logic.
So now - I thought - how would it be vice versa ? A world in which every way of research is based upon emotion ? A kind of "emotional logic", being a sort of the opposite of how logic is currently used in the scientifiic reseach process ?
I'm not speaking of emotion as a mere feeling - I mean emotion as a way of seeing and evaluating things. You can have "a very bad feeling about this" meanwhile at the same time your logical apparatus sees no sign of danger at all !
Personally, I see Intuition as a kind of emotion, too. It's the most effective form of emotion I know of, a real good tool once you've managed to work with it.
Intuition could tell a person "to have a bad feeling about this" , whereas logical research might not find any sign - because it actually misses something !
I personally believe that both emotion and logic work with two distinct ways of "researching" things - both not compatible to one another (at least as far as I can see this).
But still, emotion is considered inferior by scientists, not just different as it really is - like two colours, or just black and white.
So, what no-one had ever tried to do is actually building a scientific reseach system based on emotion. Because we all know how logic works and how to apply it, but don't knowhow emotion can be applied to work in the same way : For reseach.
Even worse : Mathematicans have developed means to describe logic - but no-one has done that with emotion !
We know that there are different logic systems, mathematically outlined, ways to explain logic, "what is logic at all ? how can we use it", but no-one has tried that with emotion. There simply doesn't exist any way of describing emotion at all - in a similar wa that logic is described - because no-one had ever the intention to do so. And that's because no-one considered emotion to be good enough for that, or for any kind of "use" at all.
Last edited by AlrikFassbauer; 01/02/05 07:34 PM.
