The crucial distinction is really between two different kinds…

The crucial distinction is really between two different kinds of cognition: intuition and reasoning. Moral emotions are one type of moral intuition, but most moral intuitions are more subtle; they don't rise to the level of emotions

— from The Mind in the Cockpit · Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

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And it does not think in cold isolation, the way we like to imagine — thought and emotion cannot actually be separated; cognition gives us understanding while emotion supplies the value, and a mind with no feeling at all cannot even decide. There are, roughly, two systems at work in you at all times: a fast, intuitive one that leaps, and a slow, reasoning one that checks. And it runs ahead of itself — predicting what you are about to see and flagging your attention only when the prediction turns out wrong; the conscious mind you experience mostly arrives a beat later, comparing and rationalizing what the fast system has already chosen. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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