In the Ted talk, “The Role of Human Emotions in Science and Research,” by Llona Stengel, explains her belief that human emotions should play a greater role.Rather than nothing in the science and research. The purpose of her talk is to show that emotions mean more to the science of logic and facts, and she explains it through different examples, Star Trek, her own experience, and what emotions really are. In the movie, Star Trek one of the main characters Mr. Spock is half human and half Vulcan. Being half Vulcan allowed him to use his emotions during his decisions. His team believed that shouldn't be the right thing because science is logic and facts. His team had one goal and it was to try to save him they used their emotion to be a
The first section explores the “flat-brain theory of emotions, flat-brain syndrome, and flat-brain tango” (Petersen, 2007, pp. 2-45). All three are interrelated (Petersen, 2007). The flat-brain theory of emotions “demonstrates what’s occurring inside of us when things are going well, and how that changes when they are not” (Petersen, 2007, p. 11). Petersen’s (2007) theory “explains how our emotions, thinking, and relating abilities work and how what goes on inside us comes out in the ways we communicate and act” (p. 8). The “flat-brain syndrome” describes what happens when an individual wears their emotions on their sleeve. This “makes it
Emotion is power. Being emotional can sometimes be paralyzing. We have seen how different characters make decisions, what they are based on, and if they sometimes falter off that path.
Plato, a famous philosopher in the early ages, described emotion and reason as two horses pulling an individual in opposite directions. Often emotion is a form of automatic action, and reason is a form of controlled action, where thought processes occur before action takes place. However, reason cannot control emotions. A huge factor is that emotions are an outlet of inner emotions. People often don’t cry when they feel joyful deep inside. Some people might be acting, but actions and small details often portray the emotions hidden inside. People...
In class we watched a Star Trek episode, where the main focus of the episode was Data. Data was a hardware built by a man that gave the ability to a machine to act like a real human. That machine like human was the conflict in whether or not it was going to undergo an experiment that was going to be conducted by Maddox, a Starfleet officer. Even Data himself did not trust Maddox to be dismantled because there was a possibility for Data not return the same way he did once the experiment was over. Not only Data didn’t agree with his decision, but Commander Jean Luc was not going to permit Data to be taken apart either. Jean and Data worked closely together in Star Trek and Jean believed Data was more than a simple machine and therefore his decision
Emotion is often thought of as simply how one feels, but it is much more complex than that. Emotions have almost evolved as extensions of survival mechanisms and are essential to managing life (Schmidt, 2017). Without emotions, we wouldn’t be able to experience feelings in our lives. We would not get excited and nervous for the birth of our first child, we would not get angry when something we love gets destroyed, and we would not be happy when life is going great. Without emotions we wouldn’t be able to successfully learn and complete the learning cycle. Emotions, both good and bad, help us navigate the learning cycle and are influential to how we make decisions, reflect upon those decisions, and create new ideas for the future. According
What are emotions and do they affect those we relate to in our daily lives. Webster’s Dictionary describes emotions as an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, or the like is experienced. One can easily see emotions are a strong surge of feelings. These feelings could be happy, sorrowful, joyful, and anxious. You know these feelings and have probably experienced them all from time to time. Different situations will affect our emotions and cause them to change, but can our emotions affect the people that surround us? Do people adjust their attitudes and emotions according to those they are around? In Alice Walker’s, “Am I Blue,” she is deeply affected by the horse and the different emotions it displays. Blue’s emotions affected the way she was feeling. If she felt that he was happy, then she too felt happy. In Walker’s essay, she speaks about Blue’s reaction to loosing his companion and how he grieved. Although he was in a beautiful place, with thousands of acres to run, he had no one to share this with; therefore he became devastated and sad. After reading this article, a pre-school/kindergarten teacher decided to see how her moods and emotions would affect her students. Would their actions and behavior depend solely on the emotions she was experiencing? After watching and observing them over a period of time and experiencing both good moods and bad moods, this is what she found.
Getting a result from a process of logical thinking does not mean that I cannot be emotional. I can also feel, to love someone or hate someone but I insist that emotions should be led by logical facts and the other way around. When it comes to real business, we should not let emotion clouds our judgments and we should get happy or furious by the facts that presented to us.
Hamilton, L.W. (2012). The Brain and Our Emotional Future: Foundations of Emotions [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from Soul Beliefs: Causes and Consequences Online Course site: rutgersonline.net.
The study of emotion was once relegated to the backwaters of neuroscience, a testament to the popular conception that what we feel exists outside our brains, acting only to intrude on normal thought. The science has changed: Emotion is now considered integral to our over-all mental health. In mapping our emotions, scientists have found that our emotional brain overlays our thinking brain: The two exist forever intertwined.
“You must put your emotions into your work” is a phrase often heard in life. It proposes that emotions, which are often ignored, are a key to success. This holds true in many regards, however there are times when emotion should be restricted in swaying one’s thoughts. The pursuit of knowledge is to be completely objective. Thus, although emotional intelligence is necessary, it is more of a hindrance than a help, and should be controlled.
Making a decision, whether it is a simple one or one that requires deeper thought and analysis, is an essential function of the human brain. USC professor of neuroscience, Antonio Damasio, illustrates the influence emotions and feelings have on ones ability to make decisions. Moreover, in an article from the University of Iowa’s College of Medicine by Damasio, Antoine Bechara, and Hannah Damasio, titled “Emotion, Decision Making, and Orbitofrontal Cortex” the correlations between feelings/emotions, decision-making and the orbitofrontal cortex are explained through the hypothesis of the somatic marker. Furthermore, In Jonah Lehrer’s “How We Decide” he reflects on a 1982 case where a patient suffered from being incapable of making simple everyday decisions due to the removal of a small tumor near his cortex and the loss of his emotions. Although previously argued by ancient philosopher Descartes as well as philosophers Plato and Freud, who all claimed that the way to making better decisions was to think irrationally, emotions are a vital necessity to a human’s ability to make decisions. Thus, the removal of the cortex or anything near the lobes of the brain affects our ability to make simple everyday because it impairs our ability to feel or have emotions.
One scientist, Damasio, provided an explanation how emotions can be felt in humans biologically. Damasio suggested, “Various brain structures map both the organism and external objects to create what he calls a second order representation. This mapping of the organism and the object most likely occurs in the thalamus and cingulate cortices. A sense of self in the act of knowing is created, and the individual knows “to whom this is happening.” The “seer” and the “seen,” the “thought” and the “thinker” are one in the same.” By mapping the brain scientists can have a better understandi...
Everyday life is always full of events that a person can organize and enjoy through the ability to think, to determine, to analyze and to feel. Logic and emotions are tightly connected in different senses of human life: at home doing common things, while studying or working, while driving back home, organizing a trip. Logic can be examined as a studying course in the framework of philosophy, or as a method of reasoning in everyday life. It dates back to Ancient Greece and Rome and still develops applying its rules to everyday life. By logic a person can more precisely and purely help to build the argumentation of some statements, as well as it can help to estimate other people arguments and to criticize. Emotions are part and parcel of everyday life and they are in dialectical interaction with logic. Some scholars research the topic of logic in emotions trying to study approaches and mechanisms of their appearance.
Emotions play a role in everyday life in all things big or small, but particularly in making decisions. When an individual is deciding on what to do, they take into account what their expected emotions would be, but the determining factor is the immediate emotions they feel while making the decision. With expected emotions, an individual will think about how happy or upset they may feel for instance if they win a monetary cash prize, or gamble too much and walk away with nothing. Often ...
fact how we behave and what we feel is only the tip of the iceberg. I