From Drive to Value

Authors: Zhadiaiev D

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000195

Volume 4, Issue 3

Abstract

This paper takes up the processual account of drive and its derivations in relation to desire and emotion with an aim to explore the continuity of feeling from internal drive to value in the world. A mental state or act of cognition begins with the impulse and category of instinctual drive; initially hunger, then reproduction. Drive partitions to desire, which is shaped by value. Action conveys feeling; concepts are pre-perceptual. The combined concept/feeling can remain internal as emotion or distribute into action in vocalization or display. The transition in the mental state from drive (need) through desire (want) is constrained by intrinsic value which accompanies the object outward as extrinsic value (worth). Except for value as a continuant of desire into worth, the partly intra-personal nature of action prevents feeling from externalizing. Feeling drives concepts to completion. Concepts propelled by feeling undergo specification to images and/or objects. The feeling in the action gives intensity to emotion; the concept in the perception gives the quality of emotion. Feeling empowers concepts to finality, as emotions, ideas or act/objects. In animal mind, feeling empowers drive-categories. In human mind, feeling distributes as emotion into a diversity of ideas. Feeling unfelt in lower organisms is felt in human mind according to the degree of individuation. 

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