Thinking and feeling as an integral process.
Felling is what makes a human being human. It is to satisfy our emotions and values that we arrange our actions.
Feelings are a sort of actions. Thinking should never attempt to be a substitute for feeling. The job of thinking is to clarify and arrange perception.
In practice it is extremely difficult to think first and feel second.
The very first step in teaching thinking must be to provide a bypass to this instant judgement by requiring the thinker to direct attention to all the interesting points in the situation. In addition to his natural feelings he directs attention to the other aspects.
We trust our feelings because we cannot see how they can be wrong. Feelings are, indeed, always right but within the universe created by our perception at the time.
Visual perception
There are four experiments to determine what visual perception is.
In the first a person is asked to match a pair of black and white discs. The discs are rotating at such a speed as to make them appear uniformly grey. He has made the proportion of black to white in the illuminated disc identical with that in the disc in shadow. But the disc in shadow is darker than other one if photographed.
In the second experiment a person is asked to match the colours of two pictures in dim illumination. One is of green leaf the other of a green donkey. The percipient makes perceptual world compatible with his own experience.
In the third experiment hungry, thirsty and satiated people are asked to equalize the brightness of pictures depicting food, water and other. Perception serves to satisfy needs not to enrich subjective experience.
In the fourth experiment people are deprived for considerable periods of external stimulation. The subjects begin to see, feel and hear things that someone who is asleep experiences. Such hallucinations are called autistic perception.
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