Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[The Grand Nudger]

Perhaps explain what makes them qualitatively different from other biochemical thoughts, while you're at it.  I understand that we put one in one box, and the other in a different box...but I strongly suspect that this is folklore and fairy tale.  A product of centuries of inability to see the workings of our own mind.

The biochemical emotions are forms of motivation (drive).  For example, when you feel sexually aroused, that is a sex drive.  But when you don't feel sexually aroused and having the thought of being sexually aroused cannot put you back into that sexually aroused state, then having the thought of being sexually aroused would just be empty words.  They would not give you any sex drive.  That is why our rational value judgments cannot be any real emotions (drive/motivation) while it can only be our biochemical emotions which are the real emotions (drive/motivation).  The same idea applies to value judgments.  Our rational value judgments are not any real value judgments and it can only be our biochemical emotions which are the real value judgments.  People are mistaking their rational value judgements as being the real emotions and real value judgments when it was really their biochemical emotions all along which were the real emotions and the real value judgments.

So no explanation, then? Wonder of wonders, nuerobiology isn't one of your strong suites.