We do ourselves a disservice when we think of human beings as exclusively logic—or knowledge—driven, and fail to pay attention to the role of emotions. The two systems are enmeshed because that is the way our brain and our organism have been put together by evolution. . . .
Emotions and feelings are not a luxury; they are a means of communicating our states of mind to others. But they are also a way of guiding our own judgments and decisions. Emotions bring the body into the loop of reason.
-Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
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