We also tend to believe that thought can be…

We also tend to believe that thought can be separated from emotion. This is also false.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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It runs mostly underground: the conscious mind you experience is a thin sliver riding on a vast subconscious that matches patterns and hands up answers before you know you asked. 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. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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