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NancyLebovitz comments on Which ideas from LW would you most like to see spread? - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: NancyLebovitz 18 May 2015 02:12PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 19 May 2015 01:12:50PM 0 points [-]

To you think "think more clearly" has connotations of "become less emotional"?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 May 2015 01:50:50PM 1 point [-]

Thinking is often seen as opposed to feeling, which is as if eating were opposed to drinking.

Comment author: bbleeker 20 May 2015 08:09:14AM 2 points [-]

I like what Khalil Gibran says: "Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas."

Comment author: polymathwannabe 19 May 2015 03:56:18PM 0 points [-]

Not to me, but laypeople tend to think in terms of a brain-vs.-heart divide.