{"id":6836,"date":"2016-06-26T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2016-06-26T21:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:49:33","slug":"how-only-using-logic-destroyed-a-mans-life-science-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/26\/how-only-using-logic-destroyed-a-mans-life-science-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How Only Using Logic Destroyed a Man\u2019s Life — Science of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

This led Damasio to formulate what might be his great contribution to the understanding of the brain (and the human body): what he calls the somatic (as in body) marker hypothesis. Essentially, he reasons, when you\u2019re thinking about a course of action, you imagine your body to be in the potential situation, and you get, in layman\u2019s terms, a \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d feeling about it. It\u2019s not that right decisions come from that sort of feeling alone, but, Damasio argues, those \u201csomatic markers\u201d filter away lots of alternatives; they\u2019re a shortcut to decision-making. While Elliot\u2019s landscape of potential realities all had \u201cflat\u201d values, healthy people weigh the potential outcomes that are left after \u201csomatic markers\u201d filter the other possibilities out.As Damasio said in a later interview, wisdom, if you choose to accept it, is what happens when you accrue lots of somatic knowledge in your life: If you\u2019ve been through lots, then you know how you would feel in a wide variety of situations, allowing you to make better decisions (and give, as one does, better advice). Therein lies the problem of the high-reason view: without the filtering provided by emotions and their somatic markers, the data sets for any given decision \u2014 whether it\u2019s what to get for lunch or whom to marry \u2014 would be overwhelming. The working memory can only juggle so many objects at once. To make the right call, you need to feel your way \u2014 or at least part of your way \u2014 there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This led Damasio to formulate what might be his great contribution to the understanding of the brain (and the human body): what he calls the somatic (as in body) marker hypothesis. Essentially, he reasons, when you\u2019re thinking about a course of action, you imagine your body to be in the potential situation, and you get, … <\/p>\n

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