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as anybody who kept a close eye on those damn Vulcans on Star Trek probably realized....
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011126/sc/health_decisions_dc_1.html
quote:Seemingly rational decisions about ourselves that we make every day, such as whether to fasten a seat belt, are actually laden with emotion, a U.S. researcher said on Monday.
Based on X-ray images of the brains of people making decisions, a study concluded there was evidence that types of thinking considered ``rational'' and ``emotional'' overlapped, in contrast to older concepts that the mind is sharply divided, the researcher said.
``If you eliminate the emotional guiding factors, it's impossible to make decisions in daily life,'' radiologist Dean Shibata of the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York said in the study. |
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