Just a short addition to my mail to John Gunkler, where I wrote:
>I hope you are curious enough to follow my argument without too hot
>feelings.
What do have hot feeling with (perceived illogical) arguments to do? Well,
at least for me, they are cause-effect related. Illogical argument as a
cause lead to hot feelings as an effect.
Where does this becoming come from? What is it good for? I now view it as
follows: My inner logical system send out such feelings as soldiers to
protect againt what is perceived to be illogical. One could say, it is a
kind of logical immune system.
Although I see that such immune system is absolutely necessary, it must
not prevent from learning totally. How can these two be balanced:
Sufficient protection and necessary openness? Is turning hot feelings into
curiosity, as I suggested intuitively, a good way to do so? And if yes,
what I believe, how is it done practically - turn one feeling consciously
into another one? For thinking, feeling and the autonomous nervous system
are linked closely to form one whole system, how do one make sure that one
will not suffer from negative side effects in the long run?
I think these are important pragmatic (cause-effect) questions, if I want
to learn to act more in the teacher-mode and less in the expert-mode
(which I definitely want!).
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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