Tag: decision-making

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Emotional Heuristics

I’ve written about this before, but I often see sentiments like the one in the below photo posted in philosophy forums and so I compiled a more specific response to this type of thinking: That’s a misunderstanding of what emotions are. Emotions aren’t some enemy to reason, they are reason in action, just in a […]

Written by SentientRoomba

Emotional vs Logical

We often overvalue logic, treating it as the pinnacle of human cognition, while deriding emotion as irrational and unreliable. Yet this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the mind works. Those who pride themselves on relying purely on logic are often delusional, blind to the ways in which their decisions are shaped by unconscious emotional […]