Respect is regard for the 'bubble' around the self, basically established in spatial relationships with other subjects in pragmatic interaction. Other people are empathically experienced by analogous mental bubble graphics. Relations of power and domination are super-expansions of the bubble covering other subjects' bubbles. Correspondingly, to be absorbed by another subject's bubble is emotionally to lose freedom altogether. To die is cognitively to feel the body map shrinking, just as the surrounding bubble shrinks by indentation.
Feelings are therefore in general both bodily experienced and ethical, moral, or legal.
Complex feelings are then less stable in memory. However, the force of any mind is its capacity of feeling and thinking abstractly, of being nobody in particular, that is, to inhabit other minds. Human semiotics arises from this capacity, and so does the universal sense of beauty that makes us care for what we call the 'world'. Please mail comments to the webmaster .