THE THEORY OF EMOTION AS THE BASIS OF THE ANIMAL MIND (which is easiest to see in the behavior of dogs).
When a dog is wandering about a roadway and a car approaches, even if it is frightened because it had just been abandoned or had escaped from its yard, the dog unlike a cat or [...]
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Why Dogs Aren’t Stumped By Cars
Friday, August 27th, 2010Jayward Thinking and Self-Defeating Logic Loops
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010One of the reasons the energy argument I’m making on this website strikes some as stupendous is because unless one can articulate the distinction between emotion and instinct, and between a feeling and a thought, then one doesn’t know what emotion is or what a feeling is, which means the terms will be used loosely [...]
The Heart of the Matter
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010Some recent questions posed by Heather really bring us to the heart of the matter.
1) Heather: “It is good that we don’t have to understand the physics when 2 dogs are in motion ”
KB: Yes, while the laws of motion are simple, the actual computations are vast and too complicated for most of us, [...]
Stump A Chump
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010Scientists use the following as an example of reasoning and subterfuge in an animal. A blue jay is in a tree while its fellow blue jays are scavenging some food on the ground below. As a corvid it is capable of mimicking many sounds, such as the screech of a hawk and it emits just [...]
Physical Center of Gravity
Thursday, June 24th, 2010The physical center of gravity is the kernel of a dog’s self and it is activated by eye contact. This is because a state of attention is composed of two beams, the external focal gaze by which the dog looks outward, and which is simultaneously accompanied by an internal subliminal beam by which the dog [...]
Charlie Rose Brain Series 8 Damasio and the Role of Emotion in our Lives
Sunday, May 30th, 2010Very enjoyable intelligent discussion with ideas clearly articulated. However an energy theory sees emotion in a different light. My main critique is that they miss the fundamental aspect of emotion, which is that it is a universal and monolithic “force” of attraction. And this means that there is no such thing as a negative emotion [...]
Trick Training Run Amok
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010I don’t want to sound like an ambulance chaser by delving into a discussion of the recent fatal attack by a killer whale against its trainer at Sea World, but I feel compelled to comment because this tragedy speaks to the rise in aggression, in dogs as well, and has direct bearing on how NDT [...]
On Damasio and the Feeling Brain
Sunday, January 31st, 2010I really like Damasio, but in the interest of time I’m going to be abrupt because simply put, the brain can’t feel a thing. With all due respect to Dr. Damasio: there’s a reason why we place our hand on our heart when we feel moved. We do not point to our brain and this [...]
Pleasure Creates Social
Monday, January 25th, 2010The Pleasure Principle IS Group Circuitry
Occasionally Lee and I get involved in debates with behavioral scientists or at least those that seem to be well informed on the science of behavior since they post anonymously, and the back and forth follows a predictable course that ultimately doesn’t get anywhere because apparently I don’t have any [...]
Distinctions Between Emotion and Feelings
Saturday, January 16th, 2010BURL: OK, next, what is the difference between a feeling and an emotion? I submit it is much akin to that between color and ‘particular colors.’ As I recently explained using a quote from LCK, a physical feeling has a datum (what it is) and a subjective form (HOW it is), and I stated that [...]
