pHoToN_gUrL Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 our DNA codes for 2 hands, 2 legs, 2 eyes, etc. and that's y most of us have 2 hands, 2 legs, 2 eyes...but i don't think DNA codes for feelings, does it? how is it possible that happiness feels the same to every one, so does other feelings like sadness, shame, etc? where do feelings come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 How do you know that happiness feels the same to everyone? You haven't experienced it from all of their viewpoints, have you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pHoToN_gUrL Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 "happiness" feels to different ppl in various degrees, but there is a feeling that almost every one experinces and describes it as "happiness". When people feel happy, the feel a specific thing and that's how they are able to label that feeling as "happiness", and that's why to some degree happiness feels the same to every one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Is it not possible that everybody feels something completely different, but was conditioned to feel that as "happiness" anyways? The feeling could be positive for everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pHoToN_gUrL Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 conditioned? by what? what conditions us? we all "feel" just like we all have 2 eyes, 2 ears....is there a segment on DNA that codes for feelings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 there is no way to prove that they feel the same, but there is also no reason to assume that they dont. this same argument can be made for any of our senses. you dont know that my "red" looks the same as yours, but who really cares? the meaning is still there. why would you think that happiness feels different for them? is there a genetic code that differs from person to person that would make it feel different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royston Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Is it not possible that everybody feels something completely different, but was conditioned to feel that as "happiness" anyways? The feeling could be positive for everybody. Exactly, the outcome of happiness is the same, it's just what leads to happiness is different to the individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 there are parts in the brain that deal specificaly with Emotion, these have been mapped. the DNA only codes the Brain structure as a physical mass, the Brain does the rest. a Frontal Lobotomy wouldn`t work if random scalpel hacking of the brain and it`s map were untrue, and yet it does. A memory, an emotion, a mental trait can ALL be removed and held on the tip of a scalpel! (if you know the right place). DNA has no feelings on the otherhand, it`s just a "Diagram" of how cells are to construct a final product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1veedo Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 We all share similar feelings and color perceptions because we all have very similar DNA. Odly enough, there are casses where people will hear "red" or see "happiness." This is usually the result of brain dammage. DNA just codes a complex enough brain for us to feel emotions. Emotions are actually chemicals produced by the brain. Laughing and being positive (ie, happy) is good for you. Stress can harm the body. Certain drugs like anti-depressents, depressents, whatever, work by altering the level of these different chemicals in the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Odly enough' date=' there are casses where people will hear "red" or see "happiness." This is usually the result of brain dammage.[/quote'] actualy Synasthesia occurs more often in "Normal" people, rarely as a result of Brain Damge/Trauma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glider Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 True, and if I may add, this condition (synaesthesia) only results in the cross-perception of the physical senses: Touch, sound, smell and vision. You could never 'see' happiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Peon Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Also not to mention extreme cases of emotional starvation. I read in a sociology book once about a girl who was locked in a room for 11 years of her life growing up, and was found. She was blind and oblivious to anything beyond 10 feet in front of her (the approximate distance of her chair to the wall she spent all that time in), and she could not communicate or express much emotion. It is assumed that while most human emotions are hardwired in the brain via genetics, the expression of them is a learned behavior. I think it is that reason why some cultures find certain things entertaining and acceptable while others abhor it. We are all programmed to have emotion but what sparks certain feelings is totally up to the enviroment one was raised in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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