with the idea that emotions are, in one sense, a means
of communications… we look for examples of someone
with a lack of emotions and the difficulty of communication…
the best example I could find was actually a fictional one…
Data, on Star Trek, The next Generation…
if you recall, Data had a problem with communications if
it was emotional in nature… logical or command types
of communication, he had no problem with… but understanding
the often subtle aspect of emotions, required much work…
things a human being will often “get” without much effort…
the emotion of love is not a logical, rational communication…
words often play a small role in the communication of love…
actions play a much larger role in the emotion of love……
this communication of emotions allows us to communicate
in ways that mere words would not allow us to communicate…
a simple touch of a man to a women or a women for a man, can
communicate far more then just using words…….
we can lie with words… that is true of any words… the words, “I love you”
can be a lie… but actions are much harder to fake…………
it can be done… but we can often tell the sincerity of words as
well as actions with great deal of accuracy… this is done with
our emotions/feelings rather then our rational/logical side of our
human nature…
we can interpret others actions and words via our own emotions…
something that Autistic people have a hard time doing because
of their failure to properly comprehend emotions…
Autistic people will miss the clues that we can see because
we are “in touch” with our emotions/feelings…
now because I am hearing impaired, I often miss vocal clues
offered by speech, clues that hearing people will catch…
but I often catch physical actions that hearing people miss because
I must “read” people without the benefit of hearing them…….
but that is done on an emotional level, not on a rational, logical level……
quite often, I have to fill in the blanks in conversations because I miss
something someone said…… so I will fill in words or concepts without
really knowing what someone said… and I miss as often as I connect…
but in either case, it is done from a emotional/feeling standpoint…
after reading some material about philosophy and emotions…
I suspect that philosophers tend to overthink the entire aspect of
philosophy and emotions/feelings…
but overthinking is something we philosophers do as matter of course…
I think it is far more straightforward then people want to
make it…………
Kropotkin