Re: virus: Empathy etc

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 16:42:40 MST

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    "The Feeling of What Happens" by Antonio Damasio is also a great read.

    Walter

    David Mullen wrote:

    > I agree with Erik though a severe impairment in emotional capacity
    > extends beyond hypocrisy into the realm of the markedly handicapped.
    > Antonio Damasio has described in considerable detail the profound life
    > dysfunction experienced by someone who is incapable of experiencing
    > day to day fluctuations in affect due to damage to the orbito-frontal
    > cortex (see Decartes Error by A. Damasio). They cannot plan, they
    > cannot prioritize activity and eventually require others to structure
    > their lives for them. Obviously excessive emotionality or "affective
    > incontinence" is not adaptive but an inability to feel emotion in some
    > respects resembles the kind of morbidity observed in the presence of
    > an inability to feel pain. DM
    >
    > >>> erik@zoneedit.com 2/22/2004 12:17:43 PM >>>
    > Empathy is logically related to not being a hypocrite.
    >
    > Emotions are useful information. People who ignore them are typically
    > covering up deeper inauthenticites and hypocricy.
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