Mid-morning. The day is cold and sunny but
the upcoming weather for southwest Ohio appears to become warmer and more
Spring-like. - Amorella
0903
hours. I am thus optimistic on the near future weather. Warming is a trend this
time of year in this small part of the world. Along the I-71 corridor from
Cincinnati to Columbus the farmers will be out and about turning up and
cultivating the soil – corn, soy beans and wheat mainly, at least that is what
we traditionally observe from the car windows.
Afternoon. You ran a couple of errands and
got the car washed also. Lunch was an open-faced ham and cheese. You finished
the upstairs cleaning and have dusting in the TV room and sweeping downstairs
to go. You also read more of the new Harper’s that arrived a week or so ago.
Discover arrived in the mail yesterday.
You
and Carol both awoke from a highly unusual and relatively long nap. Rarely do
you both fall asleep in the afternoon at the same time. Carol had been up early
working on clothes washing and general and deep deliberate (files, electronic and otherwise etc.) cleaning up.
1612
hours. I fell asleep in the chair as Carol was playing a game on her iPad; it
is really rare for her to crash. When I awoke a few minutes before Carol did
she was in a sound sleep.
Another night of leftover. You both watched “Elementary”
then Carol left to pack. You continued with “Blacklist” and NBC News.
1933
hours. I need to pack also since we will be gone a week unless I drive home for
the mail and spend the night at home Tuesday and then return for two days of
limited children sitting as Kim is heading to Cleveland on business and of
course to pick up the next round of Jennifer cookies from the On the Rise
Bakery. When I get packed I will finish Dead 8 and have the chapter thus
completed if not tonight, before Sunday.
Evening.
Everything is packed and ready to load in the car in the morning. You pick up
Uncle John at eleven-thirty for lunch at noon. You are surprised to find Merlyn
contemplating on the fact that with the circumstances observed, the heart,
through its passions create the need to express thought and in order to express
thought reason is the method, that is, grammar is the beginning of reason. –
Amorella
2137
hours. It seems to me that he should have observed this before; only he did not
know of evidence showing this a possibility in two babes who did not have a
physical brain to learn. Of course it is possible that the body itself is
enough to induce learning over simple stimulus -response. I don’t know these
things. I do not have the intelligence to understand how this ‘Elderfelder’
concept might be (even in a fiction). It does seem plausible though that it is
the heart that triggers the mind to grow because with passion rises a sense of
need to define ‘justice or fairness’ – purpose – moral values - individual
worth and dignity? Is this then the trigger or one of the triggers that allows
the mind to mature as it has in human brains? Is this what allows the mind to
survive physical death through the heart and the heart thus through or within
the soul?
There are many paths that lead to Rome.
Could it be that there are also many paths that lead to the encompassing soul?
– Amorella
2152
hours. My focus is on the heart as the birth of reason. I do not think this
way. I have brought up to think that reason is one thing and passion is
another; they are, as it were, separate entities.
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passion
– noun
1 strong
and barely controllable emotion: a man of impetuous passion.
•
a state or outburst of strong emotion: oratory in which he gradually works
himself up into a passion.
•
intense sexual love: their all-consuming passion for each other | she
nurses a passion for Thomas.
•
an intense desire or enthusiasm for something: the English have a passion
for gardens.
• a thing arousing
enthusiasm: modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill’s.
***
reason
– noun
1 a
cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event: the minister
resigned for personal reasons | it is hard to know for the simple reason
that few records survive.
•
good or obvious cause to do something: we have reason to celebrate.
• Logic
a premise of an argument in support of a belief,
esp. a minor premise when given after the conclusion.
2 the
power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of
logic: there is a close connection between reason and emotion.
•
what is right, practical, or possible; common sense: people are willing, within
reason, to pay for schooling.
• (one's
reason) one's sanity: she is
in danger of losing her reason.
Selected
and edited from Oxford/American software
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I
need to review more detail here; simple detail so I turn to Wikipedia.
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Passion (emotion)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Passion (from the Latin verb patere meaning to suffer) is a very
strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion, a
compelling enthusiasm or desire for something.
Passion may be a friendly or eager interest in or
admiration for a proposal, cause, discovery, or activity or love – to a
feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive
affinity or love, towards a subject. It is particularly used in the context of
romance or sexual desire though it generally implies a deeper or more
encompassing emotion than that implied by the term lust.
Reason
In his
wake, Stoics like Epitectus emphasized that "the most important and
especially pressing field of study is that which has to do with the stronger
emotions...sorrows, lamentations, envies...passions which make it impossible
for us even to listen to reason". The Stoic tradition still lay
behind Hamlet’s plea to "Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and
I will wear him In my heart's core", or Erasmus’s lament that
"Jupiter has bestowed far more passion than reason – you could
calculate the ratio as 24 to one". It was only with the Romantic movement
that a valorisation of passion over reason took hold in the Western
tradition: "the more Passion there is, the better the Poetry".
The
recent concerns of emotional intelligence have been to find a synthesis of the
two forces—something that "turns the old understanding of the tension
between reason and feeling on its head: it is not that we want to do away with
emotion and put reason in its place, as Erasmus had it, but instead find the
intelligent balance of the two".
"Descartes' Error"
Antonio Damasio studied what ensued when something "severed ties between
the lower centres of the emotional brain...and the thinking abilities of the
neocortex:". He found that while "emotions and feelings can cause
havoc in the processes of reasoning...the absence of emotion and feeling
is no less damaging"; and was led to "the counter-intuitive position
that feelings are typically indispensable for rational decisions".
The passions, he concluded, "have a say on how the rest of the brain and
cognition go about their business. Their influence is immense...[providing] a
frame of reference – as opposed to Descartes’ error...the Cartesian idea
of a disembodied mind".
Selected and
edited from Wikipedia – Passion (Emotion)
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2211
hours. Now, this is quotation from above is interesting:
The passions,
he concluded, "have a say on how the rest of the brain and cognition go
about their business. Their influence is immense...[providing] a frame of
reference – as opposed to Descartes’ error...the Cartesian idea of a
disembodied mind".
If I am reading this correctly it is suggesting that the
idea of a disembodied mind could not be because it is too closely connect to
the heart. I don’t believe I ever read this before in present context. Have I
erred to think the heartansoulanmind are a spiritual unit?
Your concern here is on semantics: that the
spiritual word should be written heartanmindansoul but it makes no difference
in the stories as long as the word represents a trilogy of sorts existing as an
individual spiritual entity. A human spirit has three unique and unequal
spiritual parts. How’s that? – Amorella
2220
hours. This seems plausible at least in a fiction.
That’s all we need, boy. Post. – Amorella
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