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I’m not so certain emotion and logic are so fundamentally separate you know. Perhaps logic is just our way of explaining our otherwise unexplainable decision m
by iovrthoughtthis 7y ago
I’m not so certain emotion and logic are so fundamentally separate you know.
Perhaps logic is just our way of explaining our otherwise unexplainable decision making systems.
- yazaddaruvala 7y agoMy belief is that intuition and emotion are just complex sets of logic that we haven’t understood yet. Put in the time and focus, and one day it will just click.
- lanstin 7y agoI think the emotions and really the whole operation of the mental states is reasonable, but not internally logical. They arise in predictable patterns from experiences and so on, but they can very easily override logic. To understand your emotions, you have to see and admit you aren't the nice logical person you might have expected.
- zzzeek 7y agothey will be understood someday, but only by highly advanced mathematical models developed through machine learning. models which humans will not actually be capable of understanding.
- hindsightbias 7y agoDecades ago, my coworkers and I would draw FSMs of our mgmt on the white board with cryptic lables. While they did get complicated they were understandable.
- adamredwoods 7y agoIt's biological (aka biological determination). There's the famous study of how judges handed out verdicts based on what or when they ate: https://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889 https://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889