Today we talked about emotions in our tok class and even though we talked about it in a very big range of topics the one that caught my attention the most was emotion vs reason. When is it correct to relay on your emotions and not on your reasoning and your senses. Or what if that end both reason and emotion are based on senses? whats the real difference between them? at first i thought that there was no gap between the two, for me they were completely related until the teachers started to talk about Phineas Gage. He suffer from an accident that affected his brain, after the accident he wasn't the same trustworthy and honest person but after the accident according to the doctors his ability to make rational decisions was imparted, and this, according to Demasio, was because his emotional abilities were damaged. This made me think that even though their are related their are not the same thing. As human beings every time we make a decision there is always a little reasoning and a little emotion too. For Phineas Gage there was no emotion so his reasoning was a lot more accurate since it didn't have to fight the inexact and bias human feelings. However thats exactly what makes us humans, we make mistakes and we have inductive reasoning cause we have feelings, and even though sometimes we involve our feelings and emotions more than we should, sometimes they help us too. After all when Phineas Gage lost the "emotion" part of the brains he became a machine of rational decisions but he stopped being trust worthy, he wasn't the same good man anymore.
Here we have a BBC articles that relates more clearly the story of Phineas Gage and what he went through after loosing his emotions.
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