Philosophy Poisons Emotions
As a philosopher, my own feelings appear to me like the bellow of a breath or the beat of a heart: something happening sequentially which I can tune into and notice.
My emotions are like clouds, shape-shifting over moments and perspectives, only to eventually evaporate.
The general purpose of philosophy is to answer the call of axiomatic need: to rationalize the world with cloudy conceptualization.
Philosophical concepts are simplified objectifications of feeling-based truth, posing as rationality.
“Rationalists” tend to ignore this fact:
The substance of complex entities (like us) are found in substrata of nonterminal emotional states, not in theories.
Unlike theoretic constructs, emotions are isolated needs, ones aware of us before we’re aware of them.
In our heads, there’s a mechanical projection of what we want to become: various lenses of cognitive bias mediating our sense of purpose.
We over-and-over again have convulsions of belief, assumptions, instincts, etc. — mental constitutions in various states — which we must focus on to discern.
The relationship of the subconscious first-person experience to our environment is beyond the domain of classical physics, which is why we have things like art, philosophy, psychology, logic, so on.
Metaphysics as a whole, is rooted in self-expression — thoughts and needs — leading us into dark corners of what can be known of our own mind.
Many epistemologists, for instance, believe that consciousness defines our experience, but disagree on where and how to define it…
….others believe every action is dictated by thoughts we don’t even know we’re having.
Perhaps thoughts are a mixture of memories, stimulated by internal and external events, occurring in response to what the subconscious finds important.
After all, when we analyze our subconscious, we open our mind to infinite choice: the ultimate vortex of human need.
This means, the subconscious isn’t to be rationalized.
Attempting to rationalize emotions twists our unconscious mind into a knot of unresolved complexity.
To logically reason, we must focus on emotion, not rationality.
As someone whose always balanced on a thin edge of false truth, the thing I’ve learned is:
Instincts are feelings: Constructs are rationalizations….
…. so, being logical requires an understanding of your own emotional responses, which philosophical thinking can actually prevent.
Philosophers can have a complex emotional ego, twisted by their distorted self-image….
…. their “rationality” leads them to believe they hold no need for an understanding of their emotions, and thus, can let feelings subvert their awareness to feedback into their subconscious.
Many philosophers are caught up in defining the world, acting blindly on surpressed emotions, without analysing or getting ahead of them.
