Re: REALIZATION IS AN EMOTION?
even though texts on human psychology dont say so, in chapters on emotions. but, here is a theory in the making, realization has affective component. anyone who is not able to feel basic human emotions in own self, is not able to discern them in others and is not sensitive to genuine feelings of others, cannot feel realization, either.
until s/he does that, i.e., feel emotions and adapt to emotions without pretence, people wont feel realization.
share your thoughts if you like.
best, Dushwari
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One would hardly disagree with the quixotic nature of the statement that one can not be sensitive to feelings of others if can not realize it. I can understand the word “migraine” because I have experienced it myself, but is it really true that we will be apathetic towards all such emotions that we don’t have first hand experience of. Human beings are social animal, they can not survive unless communicate, interact and associate, is it possible that in such a well knitted mesh of human social life, one would have not found the ways to deal with inadequacy and inability to understand the emotions of fellow human being without having first hand experience?
The answer has been found in “cognitive neuroscience”, there are many studies, researches to understand the similarities in the neural circuits during an emotional crisis for one’s own self or in any one else. These similarities lead to a conclusion of shared representation of social cognition, a base for social interaction. Human beings are blessed with a power to simulate; one can simulate the pain one is going through without having the need to experience it. Simulation is usually equated with role-taking, or imaginatively "putting oneself in the other's place. This metaphor is understood to embrace adoption of different spatial and temporal perspectives as well as other shifts in indexical specified situations (e.g., in social role, office, or kinship relations); and further, adoption of alternative character traits and similar exercises of dramatic impersonation.
We can internalize and adopt the emotions of others to realize and appreciate the gravity; our ability to simulate may vary from person to person, and may not even reflect the true nature one’s feeling but none the less it serves the purpose to understand others to a great extent. You probably have heard this song, does it explain anything?
Kon rota hey kisee aur kee khater ai dost
Sab ko apnee hee kisee baat pey rona aya