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What is a logical or rational understanding then, however? In a previous article i pointed out that there are different types of emotional understandings, and that these understandings are linked to cognitions and thought structures. Some thoughts are rational thoughts and are linked to emotional understandings, while other thoughts are normal thoughts or illogical thoughts and more simple 'understandings' - which i could call a 'unit of thought' or something of the sort.

What would a 'normal' thought be then however? Maybe some people think many more illogical or emotional thoughts than other people. If a thought that is logical could be defined by not being influenced by the persons emotions. A logical thought could have been developed because of irrational emotions, however it is more likely that logical thoughts that are more intelligent or practical were developed from experiences or thoughts = or some combination of experiences and thoughts that were uhm, interesting. Or not interesting, it doesn't really matter. It might matter if the experiences that developed the thoughts were interesting or not because salient experiences are more significant for the mind to understand and build upon.

Knowledge and mental representations

People have knowledge, and they use representations in order to process the information that they have. A mental representation could be of different objects. Is a mental representation a vision then, or is it just a 'unit of knowledge'?

What objects in life need to be analyzed different from other objects? A word or object might have a definition that the person understands, and if the object is hard to comprehend then it might have a more complex vision or knowledge structure attached to it.

Some things in life are harder to understand than other things, however the question is what makes one thing harder to understand than something else? Is it an emotional understanding? Understanding emotions involves thinking about different subtleties that have emotional information - such as understanding human motivation.

Human motivation is certainly an emotional topic because it relates to peoples emotions and feelings. Anything that someone likes is going to trigger emotions because the person is emotionally interested or attached to it. Therefore analyzing something that relates to human interests is going to be emotional - doing mathematics isn't going to necessarily engage many emotions or be an emotional or feeling type of thinking - it is probably more visual, or unconsciously visual.

Emotions, sensations and knowledge

What is the relationship between feelings, sensations and knowledge?

Humans use feelings and sensations in order to understand the world, they then store this information in their minds as knowledge.

Feelings help humans think about the things that they think about. Everything that someone thinks about probably has an associated feeling.

'People have feelings and they think' - that may seem like a simple statement, however it is actually very complicated. There are many different feelings that humans can have, and they can think about many different things.