Monday, April 23, 2018

The emotional experience of the human in the human experience, a vignette

Never forget that 'hate' and 'love' are just English words and denote cultural constructions of an emotional experience that is experientially embodied in the architecture of human feeling. Emotions that we experience can never be reduced to words. When we do so we do their truth a disservice. Emotions are experientially too complex. We attribute 'love' or 'hate' to a feeling-event but the emotions in a feeling-event are far more complex and unique upon every endocrinal hormonal excretion than can through reductionism be delimited to a single emotion word. In an emotion-event a vast number of emotions are experienced like a chord of notes in a piece of music and we call this chord just one note which is a nonsense and lacks fidelity. I take refuge in metaphor and analogy and that conceals as much as it reveals.

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