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The associations themselves can also be altered by the individual's thinking and by the words of others, about the subject after the fact. For instance there was really not as much danger standing near to the cliff edge, as was imagined later.
There is a difference between what is called pure sensation and that as affected by association. This distinction is the difference between pure experience, as the feel of cold water, wherein no associations alter the experience, and the experience of sensations when they are altered by association, like the feeling of cold water inspires the memory of falling through the lake ice, such that the present experience of cold water seems much colder than it really is. Sensation takes place in every waking instance such as sight, smell, sound taste and feel. In most cases there is little or no reaction to these sensations. Sensation which is absent consequence that alters reaction is termed
Amorphous Sensation.
The greatest affect upon sensory response is what is termed
Consequential Value. Tragedy involving strangers may have little sensory affect upon the individual. When tragedy involves the self or personal relations, then the sensory response is usually quite affected and animated. Sensory response which is affected by Consequential Value is defined as
Emotion. When the sensory response is not affected by Consequential Value it is defined as
Natural Affection.
NATURAL AFFECTION
Natural Affection is said to be sensory response to the immediate environment, to what the body senses or to thinking, which is not altered or enhanced by Consequential Value. The house fire was seen as thrilling and a beautiful specter of a big fire, because this was a stranger's home and its loss was of no particular concern to the witness.
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