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240. Leonard Mlodinow — Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

The Michael Shermer Show

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What Are Emotions For?

In the last chapter your book, you talked about am a danny conomans system one, system two Thinking. But it's really kind of an emotion, isn't it? A feeling? Yes, but an emotions interact with you conscious but its yourour unconscious processing is broader than that. While you have an emotion, that as hat extra step of processing where you could have a more nuance decision. Andand you make a decision based on the emotion plus other considerations that allows you to make or nuance decision.

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