Dear Rajat
I think i see your point. I would start to make a distinction which might contradict your discussion and still put us both on the same page. I think the perceptions are same but the emotions an individual attaches to what he/she perceives might be different.
Quoting from your previous post:
"While we have evolved for millions of years most of us are primed to "like" certain stimuli that our senses encounter for the purpose of survival but maybe in a fraction those wires got mixed up a bit and now we see deviant behavior every now and then"
Are you debating on the definition of 'like'?;
SA
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Hey Sreekant...
The point you make about emotion is valid and we could look into that, but from what I remember that angle has already been/is being looked into by people...It is something that can be tested and experimented on.
I am not exactly debating the definition of "like"...I was interested in understanding any hidden basis for our preferences, our likes and dislikes...any biological hard wire that guides us to chose one over the other...
An example that comes to my mind is that the fact that most people don't like things that are bitter. People have been working on this and found out that usually substances poisonous to us taste bitter. So its an evolutionary adaptation to have a natural aversion to things that taste that way. But of course there are bitter things that we eat, which to me is just because of the fact that humans have decided during the developmental course of civilization to explore wacky and previously untested substances for the palate. During this exploration we decided to make it a point to like certain things by forcing ourselves to eat them ...A case in point would be the "Bitter gourd" aka "karela"! :P
Lets keep this going ....glad you responded so quickly...
As i said earlier it would be futile to discuss these things without a basic knowledge of the brain...Lets get some more people in here...lets try harder this time...
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