I want to give a clear statement. Emotions don´t provoke clear knowledge, but provoke enthusiasm, and this love for science gives motivation and provokes efforts. A clear hierarchy, first love and excitement, and then scientific success and results.

Emotions do not work in pragmatism.

Emotions work when we choose way of work --- when way of work is important.

In pragmatism, work done is important --- way of work is not important.

Dear Subhash !!!

I understand your precious point of view. You are remarkably right. Thank you ! (great truth to be followed by someone like me, who even cook with emotion. - I notice that my dishes turn much better when I cook with love, for people I love. And that its also Chemistry, and to a certain point, cooking could be scientific...-)

Emotion is essencial for one to go in goal once was not his. Only that would justify the hours used to develop each project. To heartless is important to take some decisions, not to go home after the schedule previously planned or to substitute members of the team for the sake of the project. 

I think that it really depends on what path the scientist will choose. It could be a path which combines scientific endeavors with the normal aspects of ordinary human life and this will proceed into more perfection & satisfaction, ultimately. The scientist may become very proud of his/her immense knowledge in a particular subject, isolate himself/herself from the norms of life, and live in an ivory tower. This is a deviated path & a sure recipe for feeling misery despite the high title or position. In both cases, love of science has not been considered as variable .

I want to give a clear statement. Emotions don´t provoke clear knowledge, but provoke enthusiasm, and this love for science gives motivation and provokes efforts. A clear hierarchy, first love and excitement, and then scientific success and results.

Dear @Maria, we are the people with emotions."I can be very emotional about my science. I get excited, frustrated, disappointed, delighted and exhausted by turns. Sometimes, I have stand-up arguments with colleagues and sometimes I have to sit down and quietly rethink an idea through from the beginning..."

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/10/scientists-emotions-highs-lows

For me, the answer is YES. Every scientist is also human.  and hence they definitely have passion towards their studies or projects,  excitements, pleasure, pride, expectations, irritations, frustrations and all.  We can not separate scientists from society as a different group. They may be controlling their emotions for the success of the great work they are engaged in.

Dear Maria,

Analytic philosophy and linguistic turn, manage for the "emotions", "intuition" and "senses" to be treated as outlaw!  In recent years things have changed! Mathematical and scientific practice are in the center of philosophical speculation. 

Some books that follow this new path are:

1. Danielle Macbeth. Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780198704791. Pp. xii + 494

2. Francis Bailly-Giuseppe Longo MATHEMATICS AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES, 20 11 by Imperial College Press.

3. Fernando Zalamea, SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS, 2012, http://urbanomic.com/pub_syntheticmath.php

Thank you!

It's great to know and to count you as great friends, who are Human and who manage to be great scientific minds, also.

It's great to know that and to know you and to have emotions for you !

Somehow, I knew dear Subhash would ask me to be more pagmatical ; somehow, I knew that dear Vilemar would post a warm thought; somehow,  I guessed that dear Hanno would give tha exact answer he posted, Dr. Nizar would call for the rational side of a Medical mind, and somehow, I knew that dear Ljubomir would provide us with the correct link to answer my doubts...

And this is because I have grown on emotions for you people, and the more I read you, the more I apreciate the great advise you offer me!

Thank you!

Dear Sudev, dear Mohamed and dear Costas. you posted as I wrote my comment. 

Your important contributes bear the same meaning as my thoughts. Thank you for your books dear Costas. I'm interested.

How very beautifully put, dear Mohamed.Thank you.

Dear Maria,

you personally are not such a bad example for the correlation of love and pragmatism in science. Just remember your engagement for your conference and the lot of work you had to manage. Could you imagine to do this job without enthusiasm and love for your job?

Thank you for noticing that  I put my heart into things, dear Hanno. And as Vilemar would put it, I do work overhours quite often, with no such need as for payment.

Yes, dear Doko, you mark an important point, as you mention measurable quantity.

The greatest scientific thoughts are usually beautifully concise.

Whereas the beauty of emotions is their enormous extravagant quantity that doesn't disturb quality (this of course , is the Latin view...)

Dear Mohamed,

here's a recent prospect against pragmatism.

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/against-pragmatism-blair-cameron-clegg

On my behalf, I will surely continue my constant struggle to develop the more pragmatical side of my brain, thast helps me continue and develop my devotion to Science, as I love.

Dear Maria,

The "emotion" you alluded to be the source of fire for scientific work probably is suited with passion. Passion is the driving  force to enable someone do what he/she loves best. Scientists do have passion to science in general and to the particular field they study, because of its reasonable effectiveness in addressing problems of the human society. That passion within is changed into action to study, do research, get results and promote science. All these activities are done without being out of the analytical and reasoning capability of the brain. 

With no certainty, we not only scientists but reasonable members of society do love science because of its effectiveness. 

@Dejenie A. Lakew: Passion is the driving force to enable someone do what he/she loves best.

Dejenie has hit the proverbial nail on the head.   After all, scientists have the full range of human emotions with great intensity.   And any discovery in science serves as a catalyst for further study, looking for new results.   And I think the curiosity required to pursue possibly fertile ground is coupled with our love of the science.

I have never seen a scientist who is not emotional about his or her work!

There are four rhetorical appeals: logic, charisma (credibility of the speaker), urgency (time) and emotion. Emotion is possibly the greatest form of appeal used by most, including scientists. The quest for new knowledge is an emotional pursuit for any serious minded scientist. 

Dear James !  Ido hope that Dejenie's nail trephanation won't produce much damage to his brilliant reasoning, because I have grown acostumed, to read with delight and much positive emotion,most of his precious contributes! (Thank you Dejenie for recontextualizing the question)

Yes, dear Reginald. We do all agree on that point. Passion and/or emotional fire is what led us to scientific research and it is certainly what keeps us going, through rough times even with no financial benefit, or even if offered poor results. Our permanent goal is to keep the fire working.

This is probably why it is costumary to read from our conclusive notes at least one paragraph to refer «further research » on the same subject...

Thank you dear Maria.

 There is the expression of "professional enthusiasm" and I guess that's what is needed here. Enthusiasm and passion for our work, a strong will to know, but in a guided and reflected way. You need an ongoing motivation in research and teaching, which comes from your very own emotions, not from outside.

Thank you, dear Claus. 

Yes, I agree. But a good environment also helps. «No man is an Island».

Of course it helps, but it is rare, especially in academia

Hi All, yes, I believe that it is all about passion which creates enthusiasm and motivation to try and achieve whatever the one wants. For science in particular I think it has a very special kind of passion that provides the energy to sustain research despite all challenges and obstacles. Regards.

Dear Maria,

Without emotions there is no human being. Regarding my preferences and my essence (as I imagine): I am a human being, a man, a husband, a father, a friend of fine people, a man loving art, music, literature and the researcher or teacher is somewhere at the end of the queue…

Dear Maria,

Yes, I agree:

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee."

This you cannot understand without emotions.

Dear All,

I think science is a tool to be humans.

And we are not humans only to deal with science.

That is the point dear @Andras! There is a life behind science for scientists.

Dear András !!!

Yoiu are indeeed a unique person.

As they say, if you hadn't been born... you'd have to be invented !!!

(Maria dixit!)

Dear sirs, my best friend just called to say that today is International Best Friends Day.

(I wouldn't know if it's correct, but it sounded good to hear that, so I share with you.)

Dear Maria,

Scientists, when do research are just humans with all senses and emotional. However when they write the results, the style is rigorous and rather inhuman!

Scientists are rational, what ever results they find they have to write consciously not by emotionally.

Dear Costas,

why do you think that the scientific writing will be inhuman, rigorous yes and direct, but without human sides?

Dear Maria and Ljubomir,

Thanks but I am not worth of your kind and poetic superlatives. I can say, one sometimes has a chance. Or, it is great if providence allows somebody to say what also the others think but forget to communicate.

Dear András. We don' t "forget" to communicate our feelings. We are shy to do so because we were taught not to show our emotions as part of our education that makes us believe that emotions are irrational and the mark of animal instinct. 

Time has taught me not to do that,even if I am to be considered as an uneducated or simple minded person. Time, or age has taught me that we loose important oportunities when we hide good positive emotions.

And dear Hanno is absolutely right, that we shoild considrr the different components of the human mind as a whole . One side of our brain can be capable of rigourous pragmatic intelligent reasoning, whereas as a complement,the other side can simultaneously rejoice with emotion,in view of ybe success of reasoning. There are two sides of a Human brain to build a personality of a Human Scientist.

Hi all. Our memories form our identity and memories are more remembered when the emotional part of experience is rich. I do my job as a scientist mainly using my rationality. But as human I prefer to live and experience by my emotions!

Dear Maria,

I doubt a teacher would be able to make you hide your emotions for a fraction of a second. Poor teacher!!! ABO? People like you have a emocional blood type.

Dear Maria,

Emotions may be useful, kind and even noble. Remember, the heroes of the finest literary works are full with emotions. We should not feel ashamed of having such emotions.

Dear András,

but emotions at the right place and situation. And really no reason for feeling ashamed in special cases.

Scientists can be emotional at the time of success achieved.

Dear All,

Scientist can be emotional like other people depending on their temperaments.

I will speak as a neuroscientist. Antonio Damasio presented research in his book "Descartes' Error" that showed how important emotion is to being able to make ("take" in UK) a decision. He spoke about the case of Phineas T. Gage who, as a railroad worker, set a mine off to clear a trail for new railroad bed, and it blew a railroad tie through this frontal lobe. He lost the ability to make good decisions because his prefrontal cortex (emotion center) was damaged. Given how big a railroad tie it, he certainly lost other capabilities, like follow a map, his sleep cycle was disrupted, among other things. Before the accident, he was known to make wise decisions, and served as a team leader. After the accident, he couldn't find his way out of a paper bag, and made lousy decisions that seemed almost random in direction. Damasio and others have suggested that emotions help by putting a "weight" onto certain choices. Without any kind of emotional input, we can't make even the slightest decision at all. Scientific reasoning relies heavily on making decisions, choices between competing or alternative conclusions. Analysis of the choices means that we put a "weight" onto certain aspects that help us rank our choices and reach the best conclusion we can make.

Interesting, dear Martha!

Poor Phineas Gage, would never have become a scientist...

No link, dear Roland! We'll wait, with emotional curiosity. Thanks.

Dear All,

Phineas Gage was not a scientist and I think he did not want to be one. His case is well known by physicians and medical students, last week I have seen by chance a film about his accident and its consequences. Here you are some details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

Dear @Roland, here is the missing link! Or mybe the second one, it is the same, right!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_science

https://www.knigozal.com/store/gb/book/affective-science/isbn/978-613-0-95438-3

Majority of scientists are introvert, so, many times, emotions are not visible.

Dear Sudhash,

Who has assessed this? I mean that scientists were introvert.

Ah ! Of course, not every one that works with Science should be considered a scientist.

Dear Subhash... I speak for myself. I am probably the most extrovert character I know. I am always laughing, I misbehave, I 'm noisy, clumsy, restless...a perfect nuisance in my Department !!! And when I try to concentrate, and to behave, I get even more clumsy and noisy. But I do dedicate my entire life to scientific tasks , in teaching , practicing, and researching, most often with positive concrete results.. Of course this doesn't make me a Scientist.

But if I am a Scientist (as I always wished I should be!), I am certainly an extroversive emotional scientist.

But I understand your idea, dear Subhash, because I have noticed that most of my successful colleagues are indeed quiet, serene intelligent people, and I respect them for that.

It takes all kind of different people to build a community...

Interesting question.. I think this world is full of paradoxes, and in order to do our best in any field, we need to have a fine mix of subjective passion and objective evaluation. We need to be able to feel the verve and excitement that provides the initial and most important impetus, but the execution and implementation happens best when we are able to value the study/research/product that we developed with clear, unemotional lenses. The ying yang philosophy is at play everywhere. This reminds me of the famous set of contradictions that go into making highly creative people, as noted by eminent psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Point #9 provides a short snippet that is quite relevant to this question.

Read more at: http://www.learning-mind.com/10-contradictory-traits-of-creative-people/

I do science with love. I do it in order to help people and make world a better place. I love my job, I would not see myself doing anything but science. I am aware that for making right choices we must be objective, but I think that love is the motor. From my very point of view, science is a way to discover God and his rules. 

--- men are less efficient at distinguishing and expressing emotions than women --- women can respond more quickly to expressions portrayed by a female than a male, --- and women are faster than men at responding to multisensory expressions --- .

https://hwaairfan.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/women-are-emotional-and-men-are-pragmatic/

"Art and science are typically seen as polar opposites. Whereas art can be held up as the arena for personal expression and emotion, scientists are supposed to embody rationality and objectivity. And yet, recent thinking has shown that this conception is historical rather than timeless..."

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2015/06/13/specimen-by-irina-kovalyova-review.html

Dear Maria,

I love my specialization and I find myself through it. Since my childhood I was looking for the difficult mathematical problems and I find great pleasure in solving it, and over time I began to realize that science is the most precious thing that can be given to the society, therefore I love Science and I'm sure it's a great blessing from God.

While attending labs and doing research, scientists have to control anger and emotions.

Dear sirs!!!

You are indeed right! Emotions and scientific pragmatism may not work well together.

I just, just got, by mail this morning,  the most perfect proof that scientists must learn how to control emotions, at least in presenting work.

As I told you, I have been busy, preparing work for my next conference.

I was overwhelmed with work and stress and I confided through mail with our dear colleague Vilemar Magalhães, how sad I felt with the horrible graphic aspect of a poster I built to bring to France. (I tried to push into a little square of paper an enormous amount of information and several different sized photographs of my work. I used all the colours I could find, and several different text atributes, to enhance too many particular items). Dr. Vilemar decided to help, and he asked his Son who is a bright student of Informatics to gracefully help me with the graphic design. This early morning I received the first proof of Edgar Magalhães' touch of magic.

It's amazing how the boy produced wonders across the big Ocean that separates us. He sent me the perfect work. All he did, with magic touch, was to add sobriety to my work. And it ended perfect, to my appreciation. 

I cannot yet add here both works (initially filled with emotional colours, and finally perfected with sobriety, that enhances the scientific aspects!), because I should not ruin the impact of original work to be presented next week. But as soon as I return from my travel to France, I'll post them both here, as this personal incident fully replies to the question above.

I am profoundly grateful to our dear friend Vilemar and to his magic son, Edgar Magalhães, for the magic touch that will save my work.

Emotioally silent. But fortunately we are not alone Ljubomir, Kamal, Miranda, Rolland, Marval, Naranayan, Subbash, Mercedes, great Brenda, Hanno, Costas, Yogesh, Sudev, krishnan, Eraldo, Cecilia, Qasim, Shafagat, Vladimir, Lerardi, Marcovic, Napoleon,  Cecilia Lewis, Nizar (great man), Mario Vicenzo, Abihijit, Concha, Hatef and many more great people at RG that have one link that put us together despite of the time difference and distance, that is, we want to think a  better world with full of emotion. We needed something like RG to make it come true. By 1860 there was a society called the lunatics because they met when the moon was full so that they could come back safely home with the light of the Moon. One of these scientists was Erasmus Darwin. Grand father of Charles Darwin. We can have a new scientific society call lunatics but not for the light of the Moon, but for being lunatics who believe in a better world for all the nations.

Love you all and the names who are not here are not excluded

Dear Mohamed. 

In my case, you should add financial loss...

This week, as I had to spend two whole days at the University, for the final oral and written exams of my students, I had to cancel my private practice and lost a good amount of money, just the week before I travel abroad. 

Yes, and this means that I put "love and joy" into most of my academic endeavours. (emotional interference!)

Nevertheless, just this morning, I got a mail from the best student, thanking me for having contributed to his success. And he wrote a beautiful letter to thank me for my classes and how much he learnt, and to thank me for having taught him that one can study Anatomy with Joy and Happiness, as I do.

Anatomy is usually considered the most boring and uninteresting subject in Medical courses, and this recognition letter from my student was to me more important and meaningful than any kind of financial gain.

I don't mind being an emotional character in every task I perform, because I do gain a lot, from this!

Dear Maria,

Neither do we mind  your emotional touch in your work.

Please explain your statement below. Did you mean ALL and typed most instead?

Yes, and this means that I put "love and joy" into most of my academic endeavours. (emotional interference!)

Vilemar

Thank you, dear Vilemar. 

But my doubts persist. Don't I loose from scientific credibility, from being a lovable funny character?

I'll keep my efforts to gain on pragmatism and sobriety, when I present scientific work... (Someday, I may get there, Somedasy, I'll find the right imbalance between sensitivity and sensibility, and I keep faith that someday, I'll manage to to become the right kind of scientist that the community needs.It only takes some personal effort!)

I'll keep my efforts to try and behave, dear Roland.... Even if it sometimes produces the clumsiest of results, and even if it makes you smile!

(specially if it makes you smile, because you know that I am a child at heart!!!)

But right now, by the way, I do have to misbehave, because I just found out that today is our dear Vilemar's Birthday...

H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y , D E A R    V I L E M A R !!!!

every where, every time? Thanks!

Dear all,

I really think that  first love and excitement, and then scientific success and results, 

because if we do things wiht pation we have  the right way for doing it well, with precision, as we should in science.

Have a nice time

Helena

I like your perspectives, Maria, Hanno, Costas, Helena, and All.

Einstein ought properly to have said "Physical concepts are, as best I can make sense of things from my experiences, free creations of the human mind …". I presume the phrase added to be so obvious to Einstein that he felt no need to include it. But, in the present context, it is important to make explicit that, to a scientist, understandings are always "summaries of experiences" and have no greater (or lesser) significance than that. One important corollary that follows from science as "making sense of experience" is that all scientific understandings, whether they are called concepts or laws or theories or hypotheses, have in common the same validity within their respective realms of observations made. They effectively summarize existing observations (and make testable predictions about future observations). All scientific understandings have as well the same fundamental vulnerability to being "wrong", when tested by further observations.

An additional less obvious corollary of science as "evolving summaries of experience" is the operational reality Einstein characterized: there are always, at least in principle, multiple admissible ways of summarizing a given set of observations. Not all "scientists" would agree that this "multiple acceptable stories" corollary follows necessarily from how science works, but virtually all at least embrace it in practice. 

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/~pgrobste/pragmatism.html

Emotions are an irreducible part of our cognition and cannot be separated from it. In order to function as a sentient species we need them. It is an error to believe that any thought or cognitive process can be carried out without emotional input, even attempting suppress emotional responses is an emotional response in itself.

Emotions only exist as taxonomy of feelings where we use language to describe affect. Love, hate, fear, desire, disgust etc. evolved alongside rationality and logic, which themselves are in reality inseparable from emotions.

We would not have survived as a species without them.

Dear Barry et all, 

According to Barry  we could  add this: a scientist should have high levels of positive emotions (feelings in his heart) in order for his/her mind  to suceed in having  good results.

Have a nice time

Helena

Thank you dear Barry and Helena.. I agree. I also believe that emotions are what keeps us going and moving further.

Nevertheless, emotions can also complicate our more rational ideas that are necessary to develop coherent reasoning and conclusions...

Dear Maria et all, 

Structural characteristics of the workplace create by management decision influence the efficiency of employees and promote their attachement to the organization. 

Developing feelings of attachment  , providing friendly environment towards employees satisfaction, creates a work- life balance where all can benefit, showing the importance of positive emotions in our lifes and in the sucess of whatever organization.

Have a nice time

Helena

The emotions are together with us, they exist even if they do not deal with science, but for people dealing with science, step by step increase the time they sit here, also depends on the situation of human scientist herself or himself. I wish you a pleasant weekend!

Our dear friend Ufuk Turen just sent an interesting aproach to this, through private message:

Ufuk Turen to you7 minutes ago

There may be different reasons behind our efforts in seeking knowledge of doing science. Basically, knowledge gives variety of economical advantages and opportunities to owner which is well accepted today. However, this association doesn't make everyone knowledge seeker or curious and cannot explain whole phenomenon. Hunger for knowledge can be considered one of the intrinsic characteristics of human which is a also a part of the great knowledge. Curiosity is a type or state of mind which is supported my emotions and genetic traits which are inter-wined. Curiosity makes us explore the unknown. It might not the only reason behind the this commitment but, yes, we can say that we love science if we are in this journey.

Also our dear friend Velina Slavova added an interesting answer:

Velina Slavova to you2 minutes ago

Interestning opsistion... emotion and science.

According to my knowledge in the field of emotions, they are deeply incorporated in the normal functioning of any human being. So we can not avoid them if we are normal. Moreover, they influence human productivity and I would not put them necessarily in opsition of science. How does the scientific activity look from outside, that is onother question...

In any case, emotions are a basic regulator of the mental performence, so we should have them in our "pragmatic" minds. Perhaps we don't realize this.

Thanks for your private contributions dear Ufuk and dear Velina,

really excellent formulations and thaughts.

There are as much negative emotions as positive, depending on our character and our biological processes but enthusiasm is something else. It needs to  come first and is not so much regulated at a biological level I guess, but is more connected with the spirit of research; willing to help, to understand,  out of respect and love for those who were before us. To preserve that what is left, give it more soul and present it at the next generation needs a lot of courage and positive commitment.

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I wonder if this whole thread is resting on something that is just a stereotype. A stereotype that has been given pseudoscientific sanction by the myth of left-brained and right-brained people.

 While there are many basic facts about emotion, such as what constitutes a basic emotion, and what the general meanings of these emotions are, some of the more complex ideas have no concrete proof behind them.

http://www.uc.pt/fluc/dfci/congresso_internacional_William_James/jose_geraldo2

Emotion as well as reason are required for the personality equilibrium. In our brain, the left hemisphere representing the reason coexists with the right hemisphere involving the emotion.Scientists, as human beings, can't get rid of emotion. Emotions intervene to trigger scientific curiosity and to have the patience and the pleasure to work hard and to persevere in order to discover new and useful results.

I don't think a scientist could spend all his life in such complex job without emotion and love.

Dear all,

We have to have pation and love to be a scientist. Positive emotions are important for being alive as well.

Have a nice time

Helena

For teachers, Developing social and emotional skills are imperative not only for their personal well-being but to improve student learning.

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/art...achers_need_social_emotional_skills

Scientists should be rational, methodological in their work.

Feeling passionate and caring deeply about our research is a great motivator when we face challenges. 

Any living being, may be scientist, has some content of emotions. May be comparatively less, pragmatists are also emotional.

Our dear friend  Veena  just added an interesting answer to this, through personal message:

Veena Vidyasagar to you2 hours ago

I think that emotional tendency to some extent is likely to bring enthusiasm in the pursuit of scientific research. But at some point, too much of it may be counterproductive. I don't know how to react to the statement of 'We love Science'.

Scientist about nuclear power plants. Of course, there is and MUST be a room for emotions.

"It is reasonably easy to run emotionless arguments about the merits of nuclear power when you live a long way from the impact area of the industry...

Attempting to eliminate emotional responses or basic compassion from arguments about industrial energy systems is a major part of the problem..."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/06/call-me-emotional-if-you-like-but-my-anti-nuclear-arguments-are-based-on-evidence

I believe that emotion can indeed coexist with science. Science requires passion and dedication - No human is truly 100% cold. Many components of research involve just as much 'art' as 'science'.

Regards, 

Rocco 

Yes. In the end, we all, humans , have emotions as part of our character. The idea is to manage the imbalance that permits rational thoughts not to be disturbed by any overflow of emotions or irrational instincts.

Nevertherless, our survival instinct should prevail.

Emotions are not that much accepted but in fact they are investigated  a lot on rats and mice.

What is not yet investigated in science is the field of love, that is not always connected with emotions but is working on the quantum field; the field of synchronicity is still waiting for more research.  

To confront terror we will need a lot of love and less emotions to feel strong as love is the source of energy.

Thank you, dear Rita.

I share your views. On a day when we were woken up with the terrible sight of terrorism in Europe. I have also thought quite often, today, that L O V E is indeed the only way out.

Hi all,

Maria already sent my general  comment, a few weeks ago. I was saying in big that normal human beings function with emotions "included into the functionning". To add -. deeply involved in the functionning.

We use to think that when working with all our scientific abstractions, we do not rely on the basic emotional layer of our mental machinary. Well, this seems not beind true... It seems that on the contrary, the more the concept is abstract, the more the emotional underlying level for its representation and treatment is engaged. Here a brain studyy:

http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/13/cercor.bht025.full#ref-43

Here a psychological study with infants (it comes to appear on RG, not still full text available):

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283720301_The_role_of_emotion_in_processing_and_acquisition_of_abstract_concepts_talk

So... One may even claim that the scientists are more "emotionally - equipped"  than the ... non-scientists.

Concerning love, related to syncrony, as Rita suggests, yes... It is not still well studied. However the mechanisms that could be at the basis our "societal syncrony" seem already being a bit investigated in cognitive science.

(The only problem would be that if we explain love, it will not be so ...abstract, so it will not cause so much work on the emotional level. N'est-ce pas?).

Best wishis to all,

Velina

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