Comment on I'm scared.

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:25:22 GMT

Emotions are not a a tool like rational thought, which you have to use in a way that corresponds to the real world. You can use them in any way you like. It's rational to feel happy about a bleak future, because feeling happy is a good thing and there is no point in feeling unhappy!

I weakly disagree. Emotions are something the human race have evolved over a long period of time to make sure our gene's reproduce and contain useful insights. The non-defective ones are perfectly rational, but importantly are based on outdated data. It take a long time for basic human emotion to update it's view point because it take so long for humans to multiple and undergo natural selection.

So they are a tool as well just a very different one with strategies that are often outdated by a quickly changing data set.

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