Invisible wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Saul Luizaga wrote:
>>> since reason and emotions are contradictory in nature 
>>
>> I disagree with this.  I think emotions help us decide what we want 
>> and keep us working towards a goal, while reason lets us balance the 
>> different emotions and decide which ones to act on and how.
> 
> Emotions definitely *do* have logic to them.

I didn't mean to imply they didn't. I was merely speaking about the results, 
not the mechanism.  I was trying to express that reason and emotions work 
together, not contradictory to each other. It's the emotions that are 
contradictory to each other.

> I'd say that emotions are a set of logical heuristics. And, usually, 
> they work quite well. But like all heuristics, sometimes they're wrong...

I don't know about "logical heuristics". Certainly "heuristics" tuned by 
evolution.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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