"I feel therefore I think."

@Lore2009 (7378)
United States
February 3, 2009 1:47pm CST
I like psychology a lot, if you have not noticed, but the other day I saw some clip about the brain. It was said in there that "We are not thinking machines. We are feeling machines that think." Do you agree with this? I do. I think we are feeling experts, but some of us just stick to that and others try to ignore the feelings and think too hard. What do you think?
4 responses
• United States
6 Feb 09
This has undergone so many permutations that I doubt the original statement even exists. Regardless of the manner in which it's stated, (I think, therefore I am.) it's sort of an exercise in futility to attempt to prove any of it. (I am a figment of my own imagination.) We can work out the logic of each of the hundreds of possibilities using simple logic, (I see you, so we both exist.) but none can be absolutely proven in any sort of tangible way. It's still fun to try.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
6 Feb 09
Yes, this is question that shall never really be answered... but important to be talked about. Thanks for your insights.
• India
5 Feb 09
Well i agree with wat you have read. Humans are feeling experts ans not thinking experts. And the feel may be for anything a feel to achieve something in ur life, a feel to find a true love in your life, a feel to become rich in ur life, a feel to take place in guniess book of recodrs in ur life, there are lot of feelings like this. If a person harldy feels that he should do such and such things then that feeling only drive him to put effort to accomplish those things that he wish to do in his life. And humans are not thinking machines, because if all the things which are associated with human life are not done by thinking at it but it is done by feeling at it, so we are here to feel and experience not to think and take stress. If a person is thinking about something means he has not started to feel it, you can think all the things which you wish to achieve but you can achieve only those things which you feel hard. So in order to make our life happy always we should be a feeling expert and then think about it. More than that all the decisions made by deep thinking are not always right, you shoul feel it then only u wil know wheter its right or not. Ulitmately its the feelings which win the game. I mean the game of "being happy and satisfied". So those people who are right now achieved something and enjoying their life completly with all satisfaction are those who really felt for their life and then made plans as a thinker to acheive it.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
6 Feb 09
That is very very true. You elaborated it very well. I used to be more of a hard thinker and I still am, but now I am more listening to my heart and that is where I can feel all my senses really come alive. The memory it leaves is much more greater than the memories we leave from thinking. Thanks for your thoughts (or feelings!).
@spoiled311 (5500)
• Philippines
3 Feb 09
hi lore! i dunno really. but it seems that in the matters of the mind and matters of the heart, the brain and heart seem to contradict. so i am not sure that "feelers" are really thinkers. oh, i dunno... it is just that i have seen so many women fall in love with their hearts and not their minds and in the end realize the mistake that they have made, albeit too late. hence, my rather strong conclusion. hhee what do you think? take care and God bless you1 :-) happy mylotting!
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
4 Feb 09
That is interesting. I feel that we love from our heart and that is the purist form of love. If we love from our head then that is not really a pure love... but rather a very smart one from prevention of pain. I don't know which is better... as much as I've been hurt tremendously by love... it was great because it was pure. Hmm... I may have asked a question that can never be answered, but I enjoyed your views! Thanks for sharing!!
@become (89)
• United States
5 Feb 09
Thought and feelings are one in the same in my book. I don't think it is possible to think and not emote. I think we are thinking machines and our emotions help us guide and direct us.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
5 Feb 09
Certainly, and it's not possible to feel and not think. They may be just the same things that need to just be balanced well. Thanks for your thoughts.