Humor: The Bull Strikes Again
May 31, 2009 by alienated
Nothing beats the challenge of contradiction.
A piece of advice:
…. This sentimentality is not a productive place to be in right now, and you should seek out some sort of distraction to help you work your way out of it. Switch your focus away from emotional ideas and toward analytical data, numbers and dates.
As willful as I am:
Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at USC has played an important role in establishing the importance of studying emotion. Before Damasio came onto the scene, most cognitive scientists assumed that emotions only interfered with rational thought. It was assumed that a person without any emotions would be a better thinker, since their “cortical computer” could process information without the hindrance of emotion. Damasio’s research challenged the assumption by showing that people who have suffered brain injuries which prevent them from perceiving their own feelings, are ineffective decision-makers. Most would spend hours deliberating over irrelevant details, such as where to eat lunch. Damasio’s research, among many other studies, is revealing that emotion is what enables us to make up our minds. It is pure reason- not feeling- that is the true hindrance to decision making.
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