The reality of feelings.

"I feel that" nothing annoyed me more as a undergrad student than these three words. They signified subjective irellevant opinions of people who had not bothered to take the time to read the text and sourounding texts and now wanted to exist by uttering some useless chitter chatter.

As an academic I am currently engaged in the field of social and neuroscience. The academic dicipline it seems to me, is about researching new subjects as well as acounting for their relationship with excisting academic theories within the respective dicipline. Whether one engages a nature, culture or artistic academic dicipline, one is, or should be, trying to describe reality as accurate as possible. As Rorty said reality is the most effective means of describing an event in relation to a certain intent.

As a psychologogy student I am currently engaged in the shared reality of feelings, that is collective patterns of emotional reactions to certain events. Take for instance "big" feeling such as love, loss, hatred, fear. These are emotions that are for a large part triggered by the same events in many if not all humans; the loss of a loved one, fear of death and so on, what is interesting about psychology is that it to some extent measures and quantifies feelings, tt objectifies the subjective by enagaging feeling with intellectual scrutiny. This raises the question of whether intellect is at all more objective than feeling. We are able to use intellect and enginering to send men into space and split the atom but the shared experience of being human, the physics that give way to emotions are global perhaps one should have a little more respect for the annoying " I feel that" argument that is scorned in academics.

Actually I do not think so I believe that what makes psychology a science is that it employs sientific methods to make sure that when addressing feelings it does so above the individual level to a more collective level of emotions associated with a specific event.

Thats what I feel:)