1. Comment on the connections between emotion & memory. You may research to find out more about emotion, memory & the brain (cite as needed).
2. Define 'high reason' and the 'somatic hypothesis'. How do you approach decision-making? Examples of decisions: doing your HW, EE topic, future education & career, what to eat at lunch
1) Emotion and memory have a close link in the brain. Studies have been done and it's easy to find examples in my own life that show this. If something happened to you that gave you very strong emotions, perhaps guilt or fear, you may be able to remember that event more clearly and with more detail than anything else that happened that year or week. If you have a life event that is strongly connected with an emotion, you find yourself in a similar situation, your body can involuntarily recall the time you were in that situation, and how you felt, and make you feel the same way. For example if one time when you were a child, a German Shepherd bit you, you may have been extremely traumatized and scared. It's possible that the emotion of fear could be linked in your brain to german shepherds, and you make feel intense involuntary fear when you're around one, even if you know the dog is very gently.
2) High reason is a type of decision making. This process values reason and logical deduction rather than emotions, which are considered obstacles in reaching a decision.
Somatic Hypothesis is decision making based on emotions. It's the gut feeling you get when making a decision, in which you're not sure exactly why one option is better than the other, but you feel like you should one.
The way I approach decision making changes depending on the type of decision I need to make. If it's a really simple decision with very low consequences and meaning the scheme of life, I use somatic reasoning completely. For example when deciding whether to wear one shirt or another to school, or to eat an apple or banana for a snack. When deciding whether to do my homework, I usually use high reason. It's logical and beneficial to do it, so most of the time I do. I also use that reasoning to decide which class gets the most priority in homework. However sometimes I used somatic reasoning if I really don't feel like doing homework at a certain time, and I just put it off even it's not logical because it's late or I have a lot. For bigger decisions such as my EE topic, college and career I know I'm going to use high reasoning. These decisions, or at least the last two, have a huge impact on my life. If I'm choosing perhaps between two colleges, emotions may come into play if I find them equal statistically. With my EE topic I think I need to use high reasoning to figure out what kind of topic is logical and doable, but at the same time I want to pick something that I'm passionate about, which would require somatic reasoning.
Somatic Hypothesis is decision making based on emotions. It's the gut feeling you get when making a decision, in which you're not sure exactly why one option is better than the other, but you feel like you should one.
The way I approach decision making changes depending on the type of decision I need to make. If it's a really simple decision with very low consequences and meaning the scheme of life, I use somatic reasoning completely. For example when deciding whether to wear one shirt or another to school, or to eat an apple or banana for a snack. When deciding whether to do my homework, I usually use high reason. It's logical and beneficial to do it, so most of the time I do. I also use that reasoning to decide which class gets the most priority in homework. However sometimes I used somatic reasoning if I really don't feel like doing homework at a certain time, and I just put it off even it's not logical because it's late or I have a lot. For bigger decisions such as my EE topic, college and career I know I'm going to use high reasoning. These decisions, or at least the last two, have a huge impact on my life. If I'm choosing perhaps between two colleges, emotions may come into play if I find them equal statistically. With my EE topic I think I need to use high reasoning to figure out what kind of topic is logical and doable, but at the same time I want to pick something that I'm passionate about, which would require somatic reasoning.
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