Re: Emotion and Cognitive Science (ws) What is intelligence(Ws: neuro mods.....)

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 00:06:56 MST


>From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
>
>Thank you. It seems so obvious to an artist that they are essential to
>thought, for my job is to bring out of my intelligence, the emotive
>material
>I require, onto an image, into the visual arena, where it can be
>processesd
>by the cortex (eyes) into the brain in an entirely non-verbal way.

No doubt it takes a significant measure of intelligence to translate a
subjective (emotional or other) experience into an artistic medium which
accurately relates that experience to another person. But how much
"intelligence" is needed to merely experience emotion. I don't think very
much. Sure, at the level of worms, there is probably not enough
intelligence to give rise to the emotional experience. But sticking to
human levels, how intelligent does a human have to be to experience emotion?
  Think about idiots. Do they have emotions or no?

-Zero
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