[ExI] [Extropolis] emotions and decision making

[William Flynn Wallace]

Huh?  I assume that what we want to do brings us pleasure.  It's the things
we have to do that can be boring and joyless.  bill w

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 12:25 PM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think rewarding pleasures can be wired to anything.  I just look forward
> to the time when we can cut the puppet strings evolution has wired, so we
> can wire rewarding joys to what we want to do, instead.
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 11:18 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It depends.  Power and control will be factors in a person who repeatedly
>> rapes - lust more a factor in date rape, I think.  One black man who wrote
>> a book on it (name escapes me), said he raped white women anally to make
>> them more humiliated.  Even in date rape there is some control there.  Lust
>> always there or no action.  bill w
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don’t think that the most normal motivator for rape is lust (except
>>> perhaps date rape?), but rather power and control.
>>>
>>> SR Ballard
>>>
>>> On Jun 29, 2021, at 10:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> How would human behaviour be more or less ethical and/or moral if the
>>> processes of decision making was conducted in the absence of emotional
>>> attachment?  from quora
>>>
>>> Can’t be done. A man with a brain injury which detached the emotional
>>> center from the frontal cortex could not make a simple decision. Coffee?
>>> Could not decide.
>>>
>>> So the question is moot: we simply cannot do it. You are assuming that
>>> all emotional things are irrational. Think of them as nonrational. Emotions
>>> makes perfectly good sense: we enjoy food, sex, beauty and so on. All great
>>> emotions.
>>>
>>> Fear keeps us safe. Let’s hear it for fear! Of course any emotion can be
>>> bad. Too much lust could lead to rape. Too much fear leads to phobias and
>>> shyness. Too much enjoyment of food can lead to obesity, and so on for all
>>> emotions.
>>>
>>> Be thankful for your emotions. Like anything else, they could lead you
>>> to bad decisions, but without them we are zombies who can make no decisions
>>> at all.
>>>
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