Do you consider doubt an emotion?

[jeffk]

Harris has said he feels doubt and thinks it is an emotion. I'd have to listen again but I think he said it is an emotion near or related to the feeling of disgust.

If doubt is an emotion then reason really is not separable from emotion. Because doubt is part of reason.

This isn't the only argument why they are interconnected but another one.

 

[Gunny]

Seems like there was supposed to be more to this OP

 

[HunterSdVa29]

doubt, to me, is more cognitive than it is emotive

 

[Phr3121]

Doubt on an emotional level is indecision between belief and disbelief. Doubt involves uncertainty, distrust or lack of sureness of an alleged fact, an action, a motive, or a decision.

 

[jeffk]

I should have included the standard definition of emotion:

Emotion - a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

 

[Morning Star]

I should have included the standard definition of emotion:

Emotion - a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

Sounds like it is from the definition.

 

[djacobox372]

Doubt isn't an emotion, but it can cause an emotion. If one doubts their position on an important subject and being right matters to them the doubt can create anxiety.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

I should have included the standard definition of emotion:

Emotion - a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.

I would say doubt involves more thought process than simply being an emotion. For instance a dog could feel fear or happiness, but I don't think they can have doubt.

 

[ocfightfan]

Emotions are intertwined and entangled with thought. Sometimes one comes first, other times the other does.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

Harris has said he feels doubt and thinks it is an emotion. I'd have to listen again but I think he said it is an emotion near or related to the feeling of disgust.

If doubt is an emotion then reason really is not separable from emotion. Because doubt is part of reason.

This isn't the only argument why they are interconnected but another one.

Doubt can be part of reason, lack of confidence, fear, apprehension, etc. Take some fighters that are killers in the gym but have self doubt in fights. I don't think that is reason telling them they aren't good enough.

I think it can be part of quite a few things. So I think it depends on the context if it is partly emotional.

 

[andnowweknow]

Do you consider the War Room to be Mayberry?

Emotion is part and parcel of all thought. Because of our biology it is nearly impossible to be purely objective.

 

[Lex Bigelow]

Sam Harris is such a guru that he won't even have a discussion with Stefan Molyneaux because he claims he's a bigot. What a little baby. He was giving Douglas Murray crap for talking with him.

 

[bobgeese]

Doubt could certainly be interpreted as insecurity.

 

[jeffk]

I wonder if there the connection between outrage porn videos and feelings of disgust and doubt.

The videos usually support confirmation biases and promote disgust at those in the outgroup. Maybe they also decrease the uneasy feeling of doubt in the ingroup?

 

[jeffk]

Doubt can be part of reason, lack of confidence, fear, apprehension, etc. Take some fighters that are killers in the gym but have self doubt in fights. I don't think that is reason telling them they aren't good enough.

I think it can be part of quite a few things. So I think it depends on the context if it is partly emotional.

This is a good point.

Harris talked about it as seeing 2+2 = 5. This is something you know to be false so a person's feeling of doubt flares up. In this case, it is an uneasy feeling of knowing something to be false. It is more of feeling of disgust.

But doubt could also lead to a feeling of fear. You doubt yourself and then it leads to fear.

 

[AviatorShades]

Sam Harris is such a guru that he won't even have a discussion with Stefan Molyneaux because he claims he's a bigot. What a little baby. He was giving Douglas Murray crap for talking with him.

I never thought I'd miss the Hitchens/Dawkins neckbeard era but Sam Harris is a dismal successor. As you say he's just a "guru" building a feelgood lifestyle brand. On par with Oprah/Ellen in depth of ideas.

 

[AviatorShades]

Conscious experience is usually the linguistic ingredient isolating/defining "emotion". Specific doubts require conscious experience therefore are emotions. A general sense of doubt or instinctive tendency towards hesitance/reluctance are not necessarily emotions because they can result from residual anxieties without conscious experience.

 

[Gandhi]

I doubt this thread belongs here. Bad dum bum.

Emotive or not will depend on how one arrives to their state of doubt.

A rational assessment of probabilities or a gut feeling based on experience? That's getting to a deeper debate on we the brain really works as well.

 

[Lead]

Do you consider the War Room to be Mayberry?

Emotion is part and parcel of all thought. Because of our biology it is nearly impossible to be purely objective.

It may still be moved but I'll keep it here for now. I think something the WR is missing is the philosophy type threads it use to once have. Made the place a little more mellow compared to nonstop political threads that tend to encourage groupthink and divisiveness compared to something like this.

 

[mon]

Doubt is just the discord created when two or more parts of the mind conflict(to me)