The Nature Of Emotion(TNOE) During the middle decades of this century acedemic psychology was dominated by behaviourists in the mould of B.F. Skinner, who felt that only behaviour that could ve seen objectively, from the outside, could be studied with scientific accuracy. The behaviourists ruled all inner life, including emotions, out-of-bounds for science. Then with the coming in the late 1960s of cognitive revolution, the focus of psychological science turned the nature intelligence, but emetions were still off-limits. Conventional wisdom among cognitive scientists held that intellegence entails a cold, hard-nosed processing of fact. It is hyperrational, rather like star treks Mr Spock, the archetype of dry information bytes unmuddied by feeling, embodying the idea that emotions have no place in intelligence and only muddle our picture of mental life. The cognitive scientists who embraced this view have been seduced by the computer as the operative model of the mind, forgetting that, in reality, the brains wetware is awash in a messy, pulsating puddle of neurochemicals, nothing like the senitized, orderly silicon that has spawned the guiding metaphor of mind.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:29:06 +0000
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