We May Smile And The Dog May

Feeling Of An Emotion Is A Process That Is Distinct From Having The Emotion In The First Place. So It Helps To Understand What Is An Emotion, What Is A Feeling, We Need To Understand What Is An Emotion.

In The Heart Of Consciousness Is Subjectivity, This Sense Of Having A Self That Observes One's Own Organism And The World Around That Organism. That Is Really The Heart Of Consciousness.

But Whether We Want To Do It Because We Want To Have People To Have A Different Idea Of Who We Are Or Not, We Do It Naturally. So The Way We Construct Our Narrative Is Different From The Way We Constructed It A Year Ago. The Difference Is Maybe Very Small Or It May Be Huge.

We May Express Them [emotions] Physically Slightly Differently, And It's Of Course Graded Depending On The Circumstance, But The Essence Of The Process Is Going To Be The Same, Unless One Of Us Is Not Quite Well Put Together And Is Missing Something, Otherwise It's Going To Be The Same.

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.