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