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%AFFECTIVE PERCEPTIONS & UNDERSTANDINGS 841119
Many insights are not essentially intellectual in
nature, not cognitive. They are not the fruit of logical
analysis and can not be fully embodied in a verbal
statement. Such insights are not fundamentally dependent
upon immediate sensory data from sight, sound, taste,
touch, or smell; yet they are often based upon an
immediate sense about what is happening and might happen
in human relationships. Such affective perceptions and
understandings have to do with actual and possible
meanings of how people behave, feel, and think in relating
to each other. These perceptions and understandings are
inherently self-referential in the sense that they are of
great import to self. Objectivity is logically impossible
with regard to affective perceptions and understandings.
How we feel plays an important role in intuitive
affective perceptions and understanding. If we
avoid having feelings---we are unlikely to have
profound affective perceptions and understanding, and
are unlikely to respect those of other people---except
when insights have been rationalized into
intellectually defensible propositions which are grounded
in empirical evidence coherently tied together by
careful logic. If we are not free to acknowledge
our emotions and emotional needs, we can not be enriched
by affective perceptions or understandings.
Most people's decisions and actions flow from their
intuitive affective perceptions and understanding, not
from their intellectual analysis. Affective
perceptions and understandings can be misled, faulty
and unwise; as can intellectual analysis and
understandings. None are guaranteed to be free of
bias. Bias is best avoided by deliberate efforts to
balance various modalities of perception and
understanding with each other.
Many people are victims of inhibitions of intuitive
affective perceptions and understanding. Because of
collusions and taboos learned in childhood, or in
adulthood, they fear the consequences of permitting
intuitive affective perceptions and understanding to rise
to the level of conscious and verbal thought. They tend
to content themselves with improving the levels of
sophistication of their intellectual processes as
regards logical and quantitative reasoning focused upon
improving technologies.
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