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In a fast society slow emotions become extinct
sushil yadav · 10/13/01 at 9:57 ET
Dear Forum-Members, The following article is about emotions. This has got a direct link with criticism of psychiatry. I request you to forward the article to all such people who might take interest in this topic. Also seeking help for conducting experiment. Yours sincerely, Please note : The article has been written in short sentences rather than paragraph-form because it is about subjective experience/ emotion/elimination of thought. Emotion is different from word-emotion can only be experienced subjectively. If there are no gaps there is no emotion. Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion. There comes a time when there are almost no gaps. People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps. Emotion ends. Man becomes machine. [ Rate/speed of thinking = number of words/visuals processed by the mind per minute ] IN A FAST SOCIETY ALL SLOW/PAINFUL EMOTIONS ARE LABELLED AS DISEASE. A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ I am trying to get the following experiment conducted in a psychophysiology/ bio-chemistry laboratory. ( My background is given in the first letter ( letter No. 1 ) under the Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual and verbal processing EXPERIMENT: Subjects (preferably actors specializing in tragedy / tragic roles ) (1) Human suffering. Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling of pain/ grief for the sufferer. The chemical changes associated with the emotion in the body(blood) would be measured by appropriate methods. The silent video film will be shown at different speeds : (1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in visual speed. (3) The amount of chemical change associated with the emotion in the (4) The chemical change is maximum when visual speed is minimum. The above co-relations will be valid for all subjects -even for those who cannot feel pain/ grief. Such subjects will experience emotion associated with boredom/ discomfort/ restlessness/ irritability/ uneasiness. The chemicals released will be different but the co-relation between visual speed and amount of chemical will be same( the breathing rates will be different/ fast). Please note: (2) In a society in which visual ( verbal ) speed and breathing- rates PROOF. In the last century man has made thousands of movies / films on various Tragedy-films provide direct proof / evidence of the link between pain Painful/ higher-level emotions can intensify / sustain only when visual ( and verbal ) speed slows CHANGE IN VISUAL SPEED OVER THE YEARS One thousand years ago visuals would change only when man physically Today man sits in front of TV / Computer and watches the rapidly He sits in a vehicle ( car / train / bus ) and as it moves he watches He turns the pages of a book / newspaper / magazine and sees many The speed of visuals ( and words ) has increased so much during the last If we cannot focus on slow visuals / words we cannot experience emotions Before the advent of Industrial Revolution Man's thinking was primarily (a) visual processing ( slow visuals ) Today there are many kinds of fast thinking : (1) visual processing ( fast visuals ) If visual / verbal processing is fast we cannot feel slow emotions. (3) Scientific / Technical thinking ( fast ) (3), (4) & (5) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH NUMBERS / SYMBOLS / EQUATIONS / As long as the mind is doing this kind of thinking it cannot feel any In a fast society slow emotions become extinct. EMOTION IS WHAT REMAINS IN THE MIND WHEN VISUAL /VERBAL PROCESSING SLOWS There are certain categories of people who feel more emotion (subjective experience ) than others. If we attempt to understand why (and how ) they feel more emotion we can learn a lot about emotion. Writers, poets, actors, painters ( and other artists ) WRITERS POETS ACTORS PAINTERS (1) All these people do visual & verbal processing - whole day - every day. Most of the city people doing mental work either do this kind of mental processing which is associated with Numbers / Symbols/ Equations / Graphs / Circuits / Diagrams / Money / Accounting etc… or they do fast visual ( verbal ) processing whole day - every day. This kind of thinking ( processing ) has come into existence only during the last 200 years and has destroyed our emotional ability ( circuits ). Please note : In today's modern world even artists have started using machines/ technology for their work and they are also involved with financial/business/commercial thinking. In addition to this they are also exposed to highly overstimulated environment like the rest of the population. Please note : SELF-ASSESSMENT OF ( SUBJECTIVE ) INTENSITY OF EMOTION IS ALMOST ALWAYS Suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of a particular emotion that Let us suppose the maximum intensity(and duration) of that particular emotion ever Now suppose A & B are made subjects on a particular day and are asked A - 90 units If A &B are then asked to indicate the intensity &duration of emotion on a scale A - 9 Who is right and who is wrong ? Self- assessment ( self rating ) can be accurate only if people have Because of physical work and slow visual/verbal processing in small(slow)agriculture based societies of the past, the mind used to experience a state of emotion all the time. They used to experience a kind of high which urban people today experience after doing physical-exercise. There is an inverse corelation between physical-work and thinking. Mental activity automatically gets reduced during physical-work. If we read one thousand-year-old literature we will not come across the term "boredom" -the concept of boredom did not exist in slow societies. There were long gaps between different visuals and between words/ sentences -and people had the ability to experience/ tolerate the gaps -it was normal for them. Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual / verbal processing slows down ( stops / freezes ). In an Industrial (thinking) society people experience very little emotion because of fast ( visual / verbal / scientific / industrial / business ) thinking Suppose the maximum intensity and duration of a particular emotion ( for most people ) in a fast society has reduced to 5 units ( from 100 units that people used to experience in earlier /slower societies ). If such people experience 4 units of emotion they will give themselves a IN A FAST SOCIETY SLOW EMOTIONS BECOME EXTINCT. THE MORE WE THINK THE LESS WE FEEL. A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety. A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety. As a result of this there are hardly any gaps between thinking -between words/sentences/visuals. This is the reason why emotion has ceased to exist -It only exists for microseconds & milliseconds. Yours Sincerely,
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : Fast visuals/words/breathing make slow emotions extinct.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys ability for subjective-experience.
Sushil yadav
ARTICLE
Taste cannot be explained/experienced through words.
Smell cannot be explained/experienced through words.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : Fast visuals/words/breathing make slow emotions extinct.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys ability for subjective-experience.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
[ Gaps between thinking =gaps between words/ sentences/ visuals ]
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / GRIEF.
WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
topic " Correspondence with neuroscientists " on the website :
www.netshooter.com/emotion )
There is a link between visual / verbal speed ( in perception, memory,
imagery ) and the bio-chemical state of the brain and the body.
associated with the emotion slows down ( stops / freezes ).
will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the
following:-
(2) Animal suffering.
(3) Suffering ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.
(1) 125% of actual speed.
(2) Actual/real speed.
(3) 75% of actual speed.
(4) 50% of actual speed.
(5) 25% of actual speed.
Results :
(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when visual speed is minimum (25%
of actual speed)
body(blood) will be found to increase with the decrease in visual speed.
(5) The amount of chemical change will increase with the decrease in
breathing rate. Breathing becomes so slow and non-rhythmic that it stops
for some time at the inhalation/ exhalation stages.
All subjects will experience some kind of emotion.
In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film
with a Narrator ( Audio only ) and repeat the procedure thereby
establishing the link between intensity of emotion and verbal speed.
(1) A THINKING MIND CANNOT INTENSIFY / SUSTAIN ANY EMOTION.
While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is
particularly true for all painful emotions.
are fast , pain / remorse / grief cannot be experienced. It is impossible.
Proof of the link between pain and slow visuals / words :-
themes / subjects. Whenever pain / tragedy is shown in any film the
visuals ( scenes ) and words ( dialogues ) are always slowed down. In
many films tragedy is shown in slow motion. At the most intense moment
of pain the films almost become static / stationary.
and slowness.
down( stops/ freezes) and breathing/heart-rates slow down as well.
moved himself to a new place or when other people ( animals / birds )
and objects ( clouds / water ) physically moved themselves before him.
changing visuals / audio.
the rapidly changing visuals.
visuals / text in a short span.
one hundred years that today the human brain has become incapable of
focussing on slow visuals /words through perception, memory, imagery.
associated with slow visuals /words.
limited to :
(b) verbal / language processing ( slow words )
(2) verbal / language processing ( fast words )
(4) Industrial thinking ( fast )
(5) Business thinking ( fast )
GRAPHS /CIRCUITS / DIAGRAMS / MONEY / ACCOUNTING etc…
emotion - not an iota of emotion.
In a thinking ( scientific / industrial ) society emotion itself becomes extinct.
DOWN (STOPS/ FREEZES )
Writers do verbal ( and associated visual) processing whole day- every day.
They do slow verbal ( and associated visual) processing every day.
(A novel that we read in 2 hours might have taken 2 years to write. This is also the reason why the reader can never feel the intensity & duration of emotion experienced by the writer )
Poets do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every day.
There is more emotion in poetry than in prose.
This happens because there are very few words ( and associated visuals ) in poetry than in any other kind of writing.
There is a very high degree of freezing / slowing down of visuals & words in poetry.
Actors do verbal ( and associated visual ) processing whole day- every day. During shooting / rehearsal they repeat the dialogues ( words ) again and again ( the associated visuals / scenes also get repeated along with the dialogues )
Painters do visual ( and associated verbal ) processing whole day- every day.
They do extremely slow visual processing - The visual on the canvas changes only when the painter adds to what already exists on the canvas.
There are some important points to be noted :
(2) They do slow visual & verbal processing.
(3) They do not do scientific / industrial / business processing whole day - every day.
Because of these factors even the mind of an artist of a fast society has become quite different from the mind of an artist who lived in any slow/non-industrial society of the past. A modern artist is thinking more and feeling less than an artist of the past.
Fast emotions =emotions associated with fast breathing/fast heart-rate(anger/pleasure/fear etc).
Slow emotions=emotions associated with slow breathing/slow heart-rate(pain/remorse/grief etc).
There are several kinds of slow breathing. What kind of subjective emotion we experience is determined by the combination of breathing-rate and heart-rate.
WRONG.
can be experienced by any human being is 100 units.
experienced by two people A & B in their entire life is :
A - 100units
B - 20 units
to feel that particular emotion under experimental conditions ( or
outside the laboratory ) and the intensity &duration they actually experience is
:
B - 18 units
of 0 -10 their response is likely to be ;
B - 9
A is right.
B is wrong - B is wrong by a wide margin - B has experienced an
intensity(and duration) of 18 units out of a maximum of 100 units and his correct /
actual score should be 1.8
the capacity to experience the highest intensity &duration ( units ) of the
particular emotion under study.
rating /score of 8 on a scale of 0-10 whereas their actual score should
be 0.4
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
The number of words/sentences/ visuals(and other units of scientific/industrial/financial thinking) processed in a single day by a person living in today's urban world is thousands of times greater than the number of words/sentences/visuals processed in one day by a person who lived one thousand years ago.
Sushil Yadav
www.netshooter.com/emotion
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