Timeline for What exactly are emotions ontologically?
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| Mar 27, 2020 at 20:45 | vote | accept | Weezy | ||
| Mar 15, 2020 at 16:14 | answer | added | Dcleve | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 19:32 | comment | added | user20253 | @Weezy - I'm with you on this. But here's the thing. Physical objects must also always have a quality of consciousness about them, or at least all those we know about. So as a metaphysical study ontology is always ontology, never the ontology of this or that. This makes your question a little dangerous, as I expect you're aware. . . . | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 14:30 | comment | added | Weezy | @PeterJ I feel that emotions themselves have a quality of consciousness to them. By definition of an emotion, emotion cannot exist without experiencer. It is meaningless to say that sadness exists without someone being sad about it. Consciousness then becomes ontologically equivalent to emotion. If I am to assign any reality to emotion, then I have to do the same for consciousness. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:16 | comment | added | user20253 | Is emotion not a state of consciousness? In this case the question would seem to be about the ontology of consciousness. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 23:54 | comment | added | Conifold | A short answer is that they are mental states. The issue of what physical basis mental states supervene on is controversial. But after Putnam most philosophers doubt the type identity theory, i.e. that there is a single type of brain state that instantiates a particular type of mental state, like sadness. There can be many types of brain states that do that, this is known as multiple realizability, see SEP, Mind/Brain Identity Theory. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 18:30 | comment | added | E... | There's a whole philosophical literature on this. You may find some useful discussion here: iep.utm.edu/emotion | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 13:28 | history | asked | Weezy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |