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