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No this is not my conclusion. The reason I specifically talked about disgust, as opposed to the context of good fragrance in the previous comment, is that it specifically is a scientific conclusion, read in the works of Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom among others.

The debate is whether emotion is independent of reason, and both are pretext under consiousness, so you are sidetracking.



I'm not sidetracking. I'm pointing out that you are affirming the consequent by simply declaring statements about what emotion 'is'.




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