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Is your present emotional state part of your present conscious self awareness? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This is a deep meta question; not the response you give others. When you ask yourself, "how do I feel," is that answer you synthesize, the answer you draw from the edge of your conscious and unconscious self; is this answer a reference to the immediately preceding past of your inner experience, or is the answer from some self aware inner entity that exists in the ever changing experience of right now?

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[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

How do I feel?

Usually with my fingers :)

But more seriously, there are depths to how I feel. An easy example of this is how I feel in a moment vs how I feel about my life in general. There are also aspect of my life that I may be deeply unhappy about whilst feeling generally good about my life as a whole.

Especially over recent years, as relationships in my life have grown more complex, I've really started to appreciate how I can have two feelings about the same thing at the same time.