Texas Cop Uses Stun Gun On Elderly Man Over Inspection Sticker

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Zeke

If you don't engage in the single discerning element which makes humans not animals, what does that imply?

Animals think more than you believe. And humans think less than you believe. Animals are capable of kindness, generosity, logic, premeditation, and any other 'high' trait you care to name.

Most human 'thought' consists of attempts to justify our emotionally-motivated behavior.

There was a case I saw written up once, a fellow called 'Tim,' had frontal lobe damage. The effect was to disable all his emotional reactions. This did not, as you might imagine, make him into a highly-logical Mr. Spock. It made him into a disabled person who could not make even the simplest decisions. He would just cycle through all the options, over and over. He needed an emotional reaction, which he could not get, to tell him which one was 'right.'

So all decision-making is emotional, see?

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Animals think more than you believe. And humans think less than you believe. Animals are capable of kindness, generosity, logic, premeditation, and any other 'high' trait you care to name.

Most human 'thought' consists of attempts to justify our emotionally-motivated behavior.

There was a case I saw written up once, a fellow called 'Tim,' had frontal lobe damage. The effect was to disable all his emotional reactions. This did not, as you might imagine, make him into a highly-logical Mr. Spock. It made him into a disabled person who could not make even the simplest decisions. He would just cycle through all the options, over and over. He needed an emotional reaction, which he could not get, to tell him which one was 'right.'

So all decision-making is emotional, see?

Interesting stuff...

[donquixote99]

In my previous message, I should have said 'most human conscious thought.' The real work is done unconsciously, and the conscious mind only sees a few of the results.

I'm pretty sure the 'conscious mind' is basically a 'communications and social relations' module, that rather laughingly thinks it's in charge of things.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

I'm pretty sure the 'conscious mind' is basically a 'communications and social relations' module, that rather laughingly thinks it's in charge of things.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

John