Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2835 comp.lang.prolog:1465 comp.sys.mac:23791 comp.sys.mac.programmer:3469
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!mirror!rayssd!raybed2!linus!mbunix!bwk
From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.lang.prolog,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Feeling and thought: which comes first?
Summary: Each gives rise to the other.
Keywords: emotions, intelligence, definitions.
Message-ID: <42574@linus.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 03:23:36 GMT
References: <17770@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5626@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Sender: news@linus.UUCP
Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Kort)
Organization: Neurotic Netware, Dendrite Faults, NV
Lines: 16

In article <5626@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> pluto@beowulf.UCSD.EDU
(Mark E. P. Plutowski) writes:

 > One net-poster remarked that emotions and feeling are a natural
 > by-product of thought.
 > 
 > I imagine that thought is a natural by-product of feeling and emotion.

The cause and effect linkages operate both ways:  feelings give
rise to thoughts, and thoughts engender feelings.

But if you go back far enough in our evolutionary past, I think
you will find that feelings preceded thought, because sensory
perception precedes information processing and cognition.

--Barry Kort