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All decision making is based on emotion. George Lakoff mentioned in one of his lectures that people with a specific brain injury involving access to emotion, lose their ability to make decisions.

Any kind of preference is based on emotion. All decisions stem from having a preference for one outcome over another.

The thought processes claim to make the decisions, and to be “rational, but they always serve preferences.

The ability to expand one’s awareness beyond thinking gives access to a universe of phenomenae in a space larger and containing the thinking activity.



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