Nothing about feeling
I was just musing over this issue of our own feelings and emotions. Consider this: you watch this movie, and something happens in the movie which touches you a lot and you can't stop tearing. Consider another scenario: you are worshipping in service and suddenly there was an influx of emotions, and you just can't hold back your tears. Consider yet another possibility: someone close to you passed away and something just makes you grieve and grieve. Of course, there will be times when we can't stop laughing, can't stop being joyful, can't stop screaming, can't stop shouting, etc.
The question: why do we 'feel' these ways?
The idea of emotions and feelings is perhaps an uniquely humanly idea. We respond emotionally to all things possible under the sun. Dogs and cats may display emotions but only towards what their instincts permit them. But human beings can laugh at stupid things that have nothing to do with them. For example, I just lost my composure and laughed out loud while reading the Collin Cobuild's Advanced Learner Dictionary, the reason being it teaches you how to use the universal four letter word. It has nothing to do with my survival, and yet I respond so much from the depth of my heart, and laughed it out. It is an uniquely human idea to have emotions and feelings.
It is perhaps one of the key black holes that evolutionary theories will find hard to address. The progression of amoral materials (peptide bonds) to a living organism with moral outlook and emotional tendency isn't exactly how I would envision evolution to take place. In some sense, there is something out of the 'world' in our emotions and feelings. It is immaterial, yet it is real. We cannot quantify it, but we know instinctively how angry we are, how happy we are, how sad we are etc. What emotions that we feel belongs uniquely to us though we can share it with other people through other means. It sort of becomes one key objection to macro-evolutionary theory. Eventually, one might even argue emotion is irreducibly complex.
Emotions is a fascinating thing that everyone will experience. To some degree, it is God's gift to human being so that we know indeed that we are His creations.
The question: why do we 'feel' these ways?
The idea of emotions and feelings is perhaps an uniquely humanly idea. We respond emotionally to all things possible under the sun. Dogs and cats may display emotions but only towards what their instincts permit them. But human beings can laugh at stupid things that have nothing to do with them. For example, I just lost my composure and laughed out loud while reading the Collin Cobuild's Advanced Learner Dictionary, the reason being it teaches you how to use the universal four letter word. It has nothing to do with my survival, and yet I respond so much from the depth of my heart, and laughed it out. It is an uniquely human idea to have emotions and feelings.
It is perhaps one of the key black holes that evolutionary theories will find hard to address. The progression of amoral materials (peptide bonds) to a living organism with moral outlook and emotional tendency isn't exactly how I would envision evolution to take place. In some sense, there is something out of the 'world' in our emotions and feelings. It is immaterial, yet it is real. We cannot quantify it, but we know instinctively how angry we are, how happy we are, how sad we are etc. What emotions that we feel belongs uniquely to us though we can share it with other people through other means. It sort of becomes one key objection to macro-evolutionary theory. Eventually, one might even argue emotion is irreducibly complex.
Emotions is a fascinating thing that everyone will experience. To some degree, it is God's gift to human being so that we know indeed that we are His creations.
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