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Rationally Speaking #194 - Robert Wright on "Why Buddhism is True"

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The Importance of Emotions in Decision Making

You talk about how Buddhism and developing a skill at mindfulness can help you make decisions in a more detached way. What do you think about the objection that we need emotions in our decision making to help us really know what our values and priorities are? If you had no feelings at all, you would have no preferences. You would have no goals and in a sense, no values.

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