AUTHOR: Peter Anthony TITLE: The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio DATE: 9/22/2006 ----- BODY:

Neurologist Antonio Damasio has worked with many patients who have brain damage, often in the frontal lobe, that causes them to lose their normal emotional responses and become emotionally flat. Far from turning into super-rational decision makers, able to plan their lives without all the irritating distraction of unwanted emotions, they become almost paralysed with indecision. We need our emotions because they calibrate our values so we can make decisions.

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