Religion and the Rebel, Part 12
Continuing with chapter three, Wilson makes a claim I don’t think I’ve ever heard before: All man’s experience is emotional experience. Even the mathematician, plunged in his calculations, is undergoing emotional experience. His intellectual activity is accompanied by a pleasure and an excitement that is emotional, and it is this that makes him pursue mathematics. An electronic brain takes no pleasure in its calculating. All life is continual emotional experience.1 I tend to think this energy we experience when we…