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Associations are the instantaneous memory of past experience and thinking, which are recalled and simultaneously compared automatically or selectively to present experience or thinking, for the purpose of identification, classification, implication and context.
The distinction is made between Natural Affection and Emotion because what is of Consequence to the individual or culture is highly subjective. Natural Affection is fairly objective. The character of the Human Sensory Apparatus is fairly equivalent for all persons, in which the senses are not incapacitated. Everyone pretty much agrees on things like the color blue, the sound of thunder, the taste of strawberry or peach, and reaction should be fairly equivalent. All individuals may be affected nearly equally by the sound of a sudden and unexpected nearby explosion. After the initial shock one may attach Associations. The type of Associations will determine the response.
Different people will associate different images to the same experience depending upon their own history of experience, that produces remembered images and feelings. Association determines the reaction to present sensory stimulation. This reaction is dependent on the content of the association. The content of association is remembered past experience of action, thought, word, feeling and every kind of sensory encounter. Association reflects the feelings contained in the original experience. If a certain food makes one ill, that feeling of illness may be contained in the remembered associations of that food. This is necessary to recognize and evaluate anything sensed. The visual experience of a snake, may associate information such as kind of snake, degree of threat, past experience or fear.
Natural Affection is distinguished from Emotion. This distinction is necessary to explain both the similarities and differences, of various sensory response systems as both objective and subjective, based upon the type of association engendered by the individual.
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