Are emotions more essential to humanity than self awareness?

I do not think emotions will be possible with out self awareness; self awareness give us conscious of being which allows us to have a reaction "emotion" to the outside by position our selves in perspective to others or others actions.

Completely different. Self-awareness has nothing to do with emotion,

But are emotions essential to humanity? We are human, so yes, there's no getting away from it.

Mister Spock had to wrestle with being half human and half Vulcan. I think he represents the "logic vs emotion" we all must constantly wrestle with. In many ways he was more human than we are. Or should I say humane.

He scared the crew but they always trusted him to do the right thing. Could any philosopher in history have done better than he did or attempted to do?

Emotions are part of the normal behavior of any human. Self awareness may or may not be a part of it. Our emotions may be connected to conscious or unconscious activity. That is different in each of us as to the amount of self awareness and emotions experience.

Not at all. We rely on emotions because we are not self aware. True Self Awareness identifies with the impersonal expression of the totality of existence as "Oneness/Allness" which is transcendent of the material world of form.

Humanity will experience emotion regardless of external or internal factors. The importance lies in self awareness wherein the emotions are assessed, qualified and acted on accordingly.

I feel that our emotions are the start of it all. Self awareness is the way we handle things. I think they go hand and hand together.

I cannot think in a `vs` manner on this question.

Self-awareness is a necessity for societal peace to remain uppermost

whether our minds or our emotions are our `first suit` so to speak

and as we grow, we learn balance..or perahaps life teaches us no kidding.

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do you need emotion while you're asleep? and self awareness? which one do you need more? sleep or emotion? they become essential only when you need them. when you need to sleep, you don't need emotion. when you need emotion, you don't need self awareness and vice versa. they don't exist at the same time either. if you're self aware, you cannot be emotional. if you're angry, you're angry, not self aware - for example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDHJu7i08M8

Hello and good bye prison. This is exactly what I was wondering about just yesterday on and off. I've become very used to seeing my thoughts repeat their self in all forms, variations. Now, I'm going to just let go and allow. Anything you desire may be true. Focus on the good in life if you can, be grateful and don't forget some times to take things easy, allow things to be simple, relax. Don't worry. XD for those of you who over think. You will build a prison even if you build one without walls. There is something for everyone, no one is wrong. It's all as intended by source, God. Free will even is as intended in it's many forms, expressions it's only a reflection and mirror for God who is in our image and us in his image. Feel free to free yourself from your prison. Feel free to put yourself there haha it's your freedom. Anything you create, desire. Thanks for asking this, it reminds me how I am connected to things but also at the same time can be detached.

thought rises out of emotion. existence is emotional. depending on what you feel, your thoughts change in accordance with(or in opposition to) that feeling. it is emotion that leads us here, now. emotion is fundamental to being. emotion is instant. in a sense, thought is emotion. how can it not be so? everything we have thought, has its roots in what we have felt. and what we feel makes us who we are