Good and Evil

[Angrboda]

I think the brain process angle is fascinating because it shows the gulf we insert between emotion and reason is artificial. Formal reasoning does have mechanistic rules allowing arguments to be structured on paper, while the rules underlying the computation and generation of emotional states by the brain are poorly understood. Yet it's almost certain they are there; the brain, including its emotion computers, can be unreliable but it doesn't operate in a willy-nilly or stochastic manner-even if individual neurons do to some extent.

But the reliability of emotional judgements is a key difference between them and reasoned judgements. If emotional judgements aren't as reliable in their conclusions than reason, it makes sense to prefer one over the other. That both follow rules doesn't imply that the robustness of each's rules are equivalent.