laofmoonster comments on Feeling Rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: laofmoonster 21 November 2013 12:54:33AM 0 points [-]

Emotions, like any sensory input, can serve as a source of information to be rationally inspected and used to form beliefs about the external world. It is only when emotions interfere with the process of interpreting information that they become detrimental to rationality.