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"Cleveland, Kyle E." <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Sep 2001 13:10:19 -0400
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Bobby, could you flesh out point 3?  I can see the rationale behind the
others, but I'm not sure what he is "getting at" here?  All thought, logic
and emotion are dependant on somatic state?  Can this be over-ridden by
"will"?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bobby G. Greer, Ph. D. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Book Review


In a message dated 9/6/01 4:05:07 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< Care to elaborate on the "points"?

-Kyle >>

I will try:

    1. The oversimplistic view of the brain, specifically the cortex, having
specific    and localized functions and does not square with what is known
in
clinical
    neurology.

    2. You can not separate reasoning from emotion( and what he terms as
"feelings")
        All such functions are interelated and are constantly being modified
by              experience.

    3. Another basic tenet is of the somatic body as being the backgound
upon
which       all reasoning, emotions, feelings is based.

    4. He postulates primary emotions and secondary emotions. The primary
ones are,
        more or less, "hard wired" into our systems from the get go; while
the                 secondary ones are learned. He distinguaished emotions
from feelings
        Emotions, to him, are the physiological changes triggered by
stimuli,
internal
        and external. Feelings are mental states(images) associated with
specific
        somatic emotional states.

     have to go, but I will elaborate more if you want.

Bobby

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