Feeling Of An Emotion Is A Process

I Got Interested In The Emotions After Studying Patients Who Had Lost The Ability To Emote And Feel Under Certain Circumstances. Many Of Those Patients Also Had Major Impairments In Their Ability To Make Decisions.

To Me, Body And Mind Are Different Aspects Of Specific Biological Processes.

Of Necessity, The Autobiographical Self Is Not Just About One Individual But About All The Others That An Individual Interacts With. Of Necessity, It Incorporates The Culture In Which The Interactions Took Place.

You Can Be Highly Concentrated On A Person, On A Problem, And Be So Good At Excluding All Other Material That That Becomes Not Just The Focus Of Your Experience, But Practically The Sole Content Of Your Experience, Everything Else Falling By The Wayside.

Leaving Out Appraisal Also Would Render The Biological Description Of The Phenomena Of Emotion Vulnerable To The Caricature That Emotions Without An Appraisal Phase Are Meaningless Events. It Would Be More Difficult To See How Beautiful And Amazingly Intelligent Emotions Can Be, And How Powerfully They Can Solve Problems For Us.