[lit-ideas] Re: Tune in and turn off

--- Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> >It seems we can clearly get
> > a 'feeling' when we pinch our finger
> 
> ck: This is physical sensation. Feelings commonly refer to emotions, not 
> sensory input. 

Wrong I feel. A doctor says "Do you have any feeling in your left leg?"; we
say we are feeling numb with cold, tingly with a cough etc. "Sensory imput"
or sensory experience is commonly described in terms of feelings. So are
states ['I am feeling tired'], that are not obviously sensory experience in
the 'sight-smell-touch-hearing-taste' sense and not obviously emotional
states in the 'sad-anxious-angry' sense, described in terms of feelings. So
also are 'cognitive dispositions' or the attitudes we express towards given
propositions - 'I feel that is a contradiction/implausible/exaggerated' etc. 
 

We might say the whole of the phenomenal world of our experience can be
described in terms of 'feelings', even if these are of different sorts.

>But before we get carried away and quibble ourselves into a 
> frenzy, is this thread the same that began with "self-awareness" vs. 
> "self-consciousness"--that is, losing self-consciousness when you're fully 
> focused on an activity?

Ah. When is a thread the same thread and when is it not? This one, as we all
know, stumped the Greeks. Can we ever step into the same thread twice? For
all I know just writing this changes it into a different thread again.
Forever. 

(Before giving this further consideration I am retiring now for a power-nap.)


Donal
No Feelings
For Anybody Else
London



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