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Kobayashi comments on Rational feelings: a crucial disambiguation - Less Wrong
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Up-voted, with the following caveat...
Feelings are a communication of information. Ex: Feeling happy about losing your job may reflect 1) your knowledge about the stress the job actually held for you, 2) your desire for change (growth, creativity, etc.)...
Feelings can be probed with thoughts in order to ascertain their origin/meaning. To the extent that this is true, I prefer to think of feelings as a condensed form of communication with the 'rational' mind. 'Here's some information you really shouldn't ignore - SLAM! [Insert feeling.]'
Yes, perhaps this wasn't clear when I said "feelings can be used for all sorts of things besides epistemic suggestions"... I'm editing now to say "in addition to" instead of "besides". Thank-you!