>Edit: Just remembered that of course Hume already understood this very well. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend

>Edit: Just remembered that of course Hume already understood this very well. "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." Blegh. Neuroscientifically, "the passions" are just reasoning about your bodily and mental well-being. It can be reasoning better or worse, since "perception is unconscious inference" as Helmholtz put it, but these things largely amount to the same problem being posed with respect to different datasets.