This seems to be in tension with what she has stated elsewhere. For instance:
emotions...are lightning-like estimates of the things around you, calculated according to your values.
-- Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Wouldn't immediately available estimates be a good tool of cognition?
Very interesting... it would seem that Rand doesn't actually define emotion consistently, that was not the definition I was using. But the Ayn Rand Lexicon has 11 different passages related to emotions.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: