Lesson no9

11/01/2016

We can name 6 basic emotion:

·         Joy (or happiness)

·         Sadness

·         Anger

·         Disgust

·         Fear

·         Surprise

It’s kind of weird to me that only one emotion is on a positive side. But I could understand people disagreeing with me. I mean, some of us like to fear something so they watch horror movies or maybe another person would like to be angry. I don’t judge but basically it is commonly stated that only feeling joy make us feel positive. Anyway, that wasn’t the point of the lesson. We watched short Disney move about emotions and how Hitler used fear, sadness and anger to manipulate others. And about how we should use reason and emotion at the same time. I think that even though some people say it is impossible to say “emotions over reason” or “reason over emotions” If I had to stick with only one to the rest of my life I would probably chose reason. I never came across any mention in a pop culture of a case where protagonist lived without reason so I think I’m not the only one who is on “team reason”.

Lesson no8

Another post without a date.

We talked about how the language we are using affects our thoughts. For example Japanese women answered differently on similar questions if they were asked in English than when asked in their mother tongue. Also when reading article I got to know that apparently women speak differently than men. Were told to express our thoughts in more childish and unprofessional way but I don't really agree with it. I also had a hard time thinking about the example when while making a presentation or speaking in class my female friends were more childish than male ones. Anyway. maybe it depend on the continent but I also can't really believe in that. 

Lennson no7

So since it has been a long time without even visiting this blog ( I have no idea why I did not post anything) I can't really remember what day was it but on Lesson no.7 we talked about well...talking? Speaking? Expressing your thoughts verbally? What exactly is talking? And what are the words. After reading the text about Traxoline I had a lot of questions. I was able to read the whole text and answer basic questions as for example "What is Traxoline?" but the whole text was made by mainly non existing words. I could answer those questions because my brain followed pattern and somehow knew which words were nouns, verbs etc. Interesting. Then we discussed the idea of freedom in "1984" by George Orwell where in the world presented certain expressions were banned or had different meaning than in our world (free meant not freedom but being free from insects).