Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Feeling Rational - Less Wrong

76 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 April 2007 04:48AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2007 12:24:03AM 2 points [-]

Stephan, it is important to establish normative separation between the roles that emotions play in perception (which may be part of the process of establishing truth) and the roles that emotions play in motivation (which should not normatively affect what we believe to be true). Yes, it may be the same emotion doing both things. But that doesn't change the normative difference in the roles.

When I say "rationality begins with" I am talking about deriving the normative criterion, not about the brain's real-world temporal order of evaluation.

(And yes, I'm read up on neuroscience to the level you specified.)