#rationality #psychology #evolution # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Readwise/Articles/lesswrong.com - Feeling Rational - LessWrong]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Decisions under emotions]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Emotion/Mind-tuning emotion]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Emotion/Anger]] - [[Philosophy/Humans/Transhumanism/Emotions are bound to disappear]] - [[Philosophy/Rationality/Your emotions should not be influenced by that which is not in your control]] # Emotion >Various studies, predominantly by Roy Baumeister of Florida State University, show that when the frontal cortex labors hard on some cognitive task, immediately afterward individuals are more aggressive and less empathic, charitable, and honest. >~ [[Robert Sapolsky - Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-26 17.13.58 - Emotions, abstract painting by Escher.png]] >Emotions are both positive and negative. - Realising that my emotions are both Positive and negative, I will form daily Habits which will encourage the development of the positive emotions and aid me in converting the negative emotions into some form of useful action. > ~ [[Bruce Lee]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-26 17.23.42 - Emotions attacking men, abstract painting by Escher.png]] >When people think of "emotion" and "rationality as opposed, I suspect that they are really thinking of System 1 and System 2-fast perceptual judgments versus slow deliberative judgments. Deliberative judgments aren't always true, and perceptual judgments aren't always false; so it is very important to distinguish that dichotomy from "rationality." Both systems can serve the goal of truth, or defeat it, depending on how they are used. >~ [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-26 17.17.04 - Emotions, abstract painting by Escher.png]] >Suffering is merely that high, intense clarity of thought and emotion which forces you to recognize things as they are. >~ [[Krishnamurti]] Primitive emotions were useful in the ancestral environment, aren't but mostly obsolete in modern times, I rarely meet lions. [[Relying on authority is time-saving]] just like relying on emotions , but [[Do not rely on authority|relying on authority and emotions can be dangerous]], the trick is to know when you can follow them? Understand. >If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. ## Rationality does not end emotions >A popular belief about “rationality” is that rationality opposes all emotion—that all our sadness and all our joy are automatically anti-logical by virtue of being feelings. Yet strangely enough, I can’t find any theorem of probability theory which proves that I should appear ice-cold and expressionless. >~ [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] ![[DALL·E 2022-06-26 17.18.35 - Emotions, abstract painting by Picasso.png]] ## Passions >An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it ~ [[Spinoza]] [[Poetry]] dies the moment you try to explain it. %%A beautiful sunset, Van Gogh%% ![[3ea7cc04-374f-458b-9863-876d4b05bcf6-0-3729536160.png]]