[FRIAM] Eternal questions

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So, you agree that I *have* fear. Great! What remains is a calculus by which we can talk about the scoping of the feelings we have. Some feelings will have larger scopes. Some will have smaller scopes.

Many of those feelings will be *purely* interoceptive, not merely peri-body, but intra-body. And a feeling that is purely intra-body is private. And only those animals that have similar structure will be able to share those feelings in an inter-subjective way. ... I.e. what it's like to be a bat can only be shared by bat-like creatures.

On 8/24/21 11:01 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> I agree that your fear is an organization of your experience of your house which would be very hard  for us to experience without focusing on you and what you are doing. 
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> I think EricC, Bybee, and I handle this quite well in our analysis of the anecdote of “Joe and the Bear”,  beginning with pages 8-13 of our review of Laird’s book, /Feelings/ <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260060117_A_BEHAVIORIST_ACCOUNT_OF_EMOTIONS_AND_FEELINGS_MAKING_SENSE_OF_JAMES_D_LAIRD'S_FEELINGS_THE_PERCEPTION_OF_SELF>. Your fear is your perception that you grabbed a bat; the brain obviously mediates that fear, as it does everything.  There is nothing more inherently physiological in “fear” than there is in what we are doing right now, you and I, as we tickle our keyboards.  The brain divides out of the equation. 

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