Thinking & Feeling

Yesterday I discussed seeing with your hands and feeling with your eyes. This got me thinking about trying to feel with our heads and trying to think with our hearts - or worse, with regions further south.

A clever friend once observed that you can't think your way into an emotional experience. Some of us try to.

Thanks to Antonio Damasio (author of The Feeling Of What Happens and of Descartes Error) I do think we can do some thinking with our heart (our feelings) but they aren't the best organ for processing linear logic.

Part of appearing wise seems to be recognizing the right tool for the task at hand.

This is post 61 of 100 posts in 100 days.

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