Saturday, May 15, 2010

Stripped of Emotions

Can we truly decide or act rationally in the truest sense? In other words, can we make decisions stripped of emotions?


A purely unemotional man will be unable to decide given there is more than one solution to a problem.

Damaiso reported that the purely unemotional man was incapable of making the simplest decision. He could not get out of bed in the morning, and fittered away his days fruitlessly weighing his decisions. One cannot make a decision without emotion... Emotions are there to prevent us from temporizing.. Emotions are called "lubricants of reason".

From Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


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