In doing so, will you risk living life to the fullest? Such as having a flawless parachute which will undoubtedly open…or using comdoms to lessen unwanted circumstances which might occur. Dabbling in the stock market in a guaranteed profitable atmospere.
This would alleviate having doubt of having injury in a car wreck. Does this mean ‘fear’ has a valuble place in our psyche? Maybe fear is inherent only in this existence. If fear is removed, then we wouldn’t have to worry about ‘life after death’ scenarios. It could affect us physiologically in that it could influence the pleasure centers of the brain and the adrenaline our bodies produces which heightens our senses. Fear could be considered a ‘good’ defensive mechanism.
Hard for me to understand exactly what you are saying.
Fear seems like an excellent phenomenon for dealing with life. One could argue that the male need to deny fear is one of the root problems with humans.
Imagine if we were deprived of that emotion. Man is supposed to be a higher functioning being, yet we haven’t been able to control it’s effects. Does this mean we are slaves to this phenomena? As I had suggested, it’s pysiological adjuncts are somehow associated with the adrenal gland. Plus, the numerous phobias that are affiliated with this emotion.
What would take it’s place if man were somehow able to control it’s effects? Could it be like removing one of our senses? There is no doubt that attribute helped early man to stay alive. It makes me wonder if it is designed in our DNA or a learned trait.
Animals seem to exhibit fear based traits that run along more of a rudimentary vein. Theirs mostly dealing mainly with staying alive. Humans on the other hand have developed into most all aspects of their lives. The television show “Star Trek” has characters called ‘Vulcans’ who can control their emotions. If people were able to do so, would this be an improvement or a detriment?
Here is a partial list of fear/phobias:
Common fears:
Acrophobia: Fear of heights
Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces
Belonephobia: fear of needles
Brontophobia: fear of thunder and lightning
Claustrophobia: fear of confined spaces
Hamartophobia: fear of sinning
Suriphobia: fear of mice and/or rats
Necrophobia: fear of death
Pentheraphobia: fear of the mother-in-law
Thalassophobia: fear of the sea
Xenophobia: fear of strangers or foreigners
How come some are more susceptible than others to these problems?
Detriment.
I would also say that Vulcans are afraid of feeling their emotions. They have a strong control need and this limits them, hypothetical creatures that they are.
Would we be better off without pain neurons? I doubt it. I think fear functions like pain, but can often act as a warning, or a complete preventative.
Fear can be intuitive as distinct from the linear, verbal thinking of the left brain.
We may feel afraid long before we can articulate or be conscious of the pattern our intution recognizes in a certain situation. For example the people near us in a bank might be acting strangely. We feel uneasy. We observe a couple of them and realize that this might be a robbery. We exit the bank. We cannot walk around analyzing all situations rationally for clues to see, again consciously, if something bad is going to happen. Strong emotions and the pattern recognition abilties of the right brain are better left to handle such things unless we know a specific event or problem is likely to occur.
That is almost a paradox in terms isn’t it? They are afraid to deal with emotions, so they use reason and logic to help control their emotions. Fear was the basic construct that led them to that decision, then they explain it was ‘logical’ to keep them at bay. Ironic…
Yes, it would be a root irony. If fear has value - such as, in this case, the fear of expressing and feeling emotions - than not feeling and not expressing emotions might be problematic. If do not have value than a mode of existence based on the conclusions of one single fear - the fear of feeling and expressing emotions - would be a bad axiom to build one’s system on.
Of course this is all hypothetical since we are talking about Vulcans, but I believe this pattern is the root of many intellectuals’ and science-inclined people’s self suppression and control.