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Have we said what you want said about feelings and emotions? Pending further questions and objections, perhaps. Of course we have only scratched the surface, but let’s see what people want to challenge or extend to. I for one think you made your case for feelings being primary in our experience of life. But this…

[Dirk’s third set of questions, sent 10-14-2020 [As far as further questions that you may best be able to illuminate, here are a couple more. [We have all seen how quickly people react to one another emotionally and in feelings. So a couple of questions occur to me along those lines. [3.1 Starting with emotion…

I would prefer not to make a public display of my own difficulties, but they seem to shed light on what we all go through in one way or another. Me to the guys, after a hard night: We’re going to have to come to some sort of agreement. Here it is coming on 9…

You want to say more about the junction of 3D and external. We do. You opened up very productive ground there. If people would get the idea and think about it, they would find the answer, or an answer, anyway, to many questions that have puzzled philosophers. The answer is to be found in the…

Let’s proceed to Dirk’s question 3-3, and the clarification he provided, at my request. [3.3 Often it seems that moods and feelings get set into places. How does that work? What is happening there? [I have encountered many places where a particular mood in people who go there seems to be associated with the place.…

Let’s look at Dirk’s question 3.4. And 3.5 at the same time, because the reasoning is the same for each. Yes, I see that. [3.4. As we feel feelings and express them in ourselves and out to the world, it seems that people are aware of those even before we encounter one another. How does…

Dirk sends a clarification of question 3.5 He says there are at least three kinds of precognitive effects, the first of which you addressed, and the third of which he meant you to address: seemingly (but not truly) precognitive, “an artifact of our complex brain and body.” He describes it as anticipation, and says he…

Let’s look at Dirk’s first question. [4-1 Why do we tend to see group expression of emotions and feelings? We tend to do that with particular cultures (Italian, Spanish, English, Greek, Irish, Turkic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian …). We also tend to do that by attributes (e.g. especially hair color). And we tend to do…

On to Dirk’s further questions, which stem from a place I would never come from, and are interesting. [4-2 How much of our emotional/feeling makeup is influenced by that? {That is, by how we see group expression of emotions and feelings.} How much by family? How much by our greater selves / past lives if…

It seems to me Dirk’s questions 4.3, 4.4, and perhaps 4.5 may be disposed of relatively quickly because not relevant. Is that so? [4-3 How much contribution is there that comes through our epigenome (the modification of the methylation of our DNA that passes information from prior generations & that changes during our lives –…