I thought this was funny. Perhaps I have a very sick sense of humour.
In terms of TOK and ways of knowing, did people's emotion override their reasoning in assessing what was happening? Was their reaction 'reasonable'?
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Don't you think these ways of knowing are deeply intertwined? I can see how a New Yorker would easily reason from 9/11 to the situation of observing a low-flying airliner over the city, but the fact that this particular observation and the reasoning process pertaining to it were privileged over other observations and things to reason about can be explained with reference to emotion.
Emotion has been described as a sort of "mental spotlight" that points us in the direction of what is important (this function is consistent with evolutionary origins of emotions). In the absence of this spotlight, it would be hard to decide what to reason about, and to decide which potential outcome to follow.
What do you think?
Dear Puppy,
Where are the links to all your posts?
They are embedded in the titles of the threads - just click on them.
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