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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Yes, it is quite good and so is "Looking for Spinoza" though more
focused on general philosphical issues than cognitive neuroscience.

>>> wlwatts@cox.net 2/24/2004 4:42:40 PM >>>
"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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