1. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

2. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
I’ve given you one of 8 icons, which each represent a subset of Myers-Briggs personality type
Each type will tend to strongly prefer their icon to the other 7 (86% in tests)
Obviously I don’t know you guys 100% well enough to give you a proper classification, but I reckon I’ve had a good guess for most of you
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

3. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

4. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Keep these with you for the moment, as they are a good indicator of how your emotional ‘type’ leads you to decisions
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

5. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Name three decisions you make using emotion as the primary input
Remember that emotion is different from Sense, so for example choosing a favourite ice cream flavour would be sense based, choosing a favourite romantic partner might be emotional
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

6. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Some argue that we need emotional stability and comfort to be able to ‘know’ and engage with the external world at all
Maslow argued this with his ‘Pyramid of needs’, a diagram showing what needs to be fulfilled before a human can progress
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

7. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

8. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
This, in a sense, makes Emotion the most important mode of knowing, as we need to understand that our emotional needs are met before we move on to other sources of knowledge.
Think of it like this, if every so often I just hurled my stapler randomly at one of your heads, you’d stop focusing on the lesson quite as much, because you felt unsafe
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

9. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
What do you think the message in the Star Trek video at the beginning was?
What was the director trying to show?
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

10. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Certain people argue that we need to use our emotions to make decisions, otherwise we simply cannot act in some circumstances
There have been experiments to prove this, and you are about to see one of them.
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

11. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
We acquire emotional connections to events and people far in advance of our cognitive and rational connections
Some may phrase this as a sense of ‘prescience’ or just knowing what is right intuitively
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

12. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

13. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
That is the current top leader in reddit’s list of punchable faces
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

14. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Have you ever had someone you just distrust or dislike instinctively, only to be proven right later on?
Many psychologists would argue that this is because you have an emotional connection to something they have or did, that you cannot rationally explain, but simply makes you emotionally negative to them
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

15. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Think about something you react negatively towards despite your better efforts
Can you think of a reason behind this? Is there an emotional connection between you and the item?
Consider phobias, often they form when we have a bad experience of something whilst young, and therefore form an emotional connection to it
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

16. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
There are, however, some problems with using emotion to know.
Derren Brown, and B.F. Skinner, claim that emotional knowledge often devolves into ‘superstition’ or blind belief
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

17. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

18. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
These are all eight of the icons I gave you at the start of the class
How right was I? How many of you prefer your icon to the other seven?
I’m not expecting to get this 100%, but I think it will be over 50.
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

19. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Obviously I didn’t actually hand out the icons based on personality, I barely know most of your names
I just handed them out randomly
This is to show, (and many other studies back me up) that the connection works both ways
That is to say, if you think something has a connection with you, you are more likely to value it highly despite its actual worth
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?

20. Emotion as a Way of Knowing
Is there anything you think we can be certain of when talking about emotion?
Under what circumstances can we ‘know’ emotionally?
Do you think emotional knowledge is more or less valid than the other ways of knowing we have looked at?
KLQ: What can we know through our emotions, and what dangers are there in this?