[lit-ideas] Re: Emotion and Politics
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:16:04 -0500
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> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/25/2006 7:02:43 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Emotion and Politics
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> The study points to a total lack of reason in
> political decision-making.
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> Notably absent were any increases in activation of
> the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of
> the brain most associated with reasoning.
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Just proves that war, especially an offensive war, is an emotional act, not
a rational one. I think most human decisions are emotional. Humans use
their rational brains mostly for doing things like inventing, creating.
Everything else is in the emotional, animal brain. I always thought if we
did away with love, and just liked instead, the world would be a lot better
off.
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