From:	Seth Fogarty aravthamis@*****.com
Subject:	fox special: when MetaBeings attack!
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:13:36 -0800 (PST)

---"Shaun E. Gilroy" <shaung@**********.net> wrote:
>
> At 03:21 PM 2/16/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >i agree, thats why simsense wouldnt pick up things that you
imagine, see
> >with your 'minds eye', all that...
> >however i should point out that some simsense also carries emotive
tracks so
> >it can be more than the five senses...
>
> There you go assuming that emotions are derived of things unrelated
to the
> senses. :)
>
> Emotions are chemical reactions in the brain and can be made to happen
> without any sort of spiritual / mental involvement. That's what
> anti-psychotic drugs are for. Psychologist in the early half of the
> century wired boxes to mental patients' brains to produce this effect.
>
> As far as I'm concerned that is quite removed from astral sight with
is
> related to thought/spirit interaction.
>
> >
> >-glenn
> >
>
>
> Shaun Gilroy [shaung@**********.net]
> Online Technologies Corp.
>
I am glad you're so sure emotions are nothing more than chemical
reactions. However, from a psychological standpoint (note that this
is, of course, under debate, and that psychiatry may have a very
different viewpont) standpoint, emotions are more similar to a pain
stimulus. Chemicals can be used to "block" emotions, much like pain
(Advil, for instance), but the actual cause of the emotion is not
dealt with. For many people, dealing with the cause (psychotherapy, or
just time. much like wounds can be healed with surgery or, again, just
time.) For certain types of emotional conditions (depression being the
most common one, but others), there is no viable way to cure it. In
these cases, it is often better to block the signal on a permanent
passes (Arthritis, chronic back pains, etc.)

You are primarily describing a third grouping, the malformation of the
chemical receptors.. like your brain thinking your body is constantly
in pain. These are "chemical imbalances." If you talk to some people
who suffer from these, it is not trully an emotion. They can
differentiate between, for example (the person I have had the longest
conversation with) true "anger" and the rage brought on by the
chemical imbalance. This
is at once the apparent cause of many second axis psychological
disorders (I believe it's second axis. I'm not a psych major) and the
effect described by psychoactive medications and drugs.

While I'm sure I could ramble on for a good deal longer, I'm sure I've
bored the lot of you enough already :)


Die-Hard Nievist
Arav
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