[MD] Emotions for Joe

[Ian Glendinning]

BTW Marsha, the key word for me in that second Damasio clip is "endorse".

Reminds me that "free-will" is best thought of as "free-won't" after
Dennett and Wegner.
http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1192
Thought of that way free-will is exactly what it appears to be - and
totally non-contentious I'd say - like consciousness itself ;-)

Decision-making to act is hugely complex - the conscious thinking part
of it just happens to be tiny, conscious emotion is another part, but
subconscious animalian activity is another even larger part.
(Hence anomalies like Libet, etc.)

Conscious emotion is one of those McGilchrist right-left-right
patterns, takes two hemispheres (and a body with legs) to tango.
Regards
Ian