After all, how many daily decisions do we make on the basis of deductive logic compared with those guided by gut feeling, intuition, emotions, impulse or practical skills?
The brain is constantly coursing with many overlapping thoughts, emotions, impulses, and sensory stimuli.
John Maynard Keynes coined the term "animal spirits" to describe the emotions, impulses, enthusiasms and misperceptions that drive economies.
And it's all about staging the full complexity of human emotion and impulse, however tough to look at.
Harpo played a mute, clad in rags and battered top hat, who communicated through gestures, whistles, horn-honking, and wild facial expressions; his character is that of pure, unbridled emotion and impulse, devilish and angelic in equal measure.
He's one of perhaps four or five of his generation leading the overhaul of the traditional economic model and its underlying assumption that people always behave rationally and make the right decision, unfettered by emotion or impulse.
The rational part, which Lucretius calls mind [animus], is the origin of emotion and impulse, and it is also where (no doubt among other operations) concepts are applied and beliefs formed, and where evidence is assessed and inferences are made.
Recent studies, however, describe binge eating in BED as the possible result of an immediate breakdown of emotion and impulse regulation caused by sudden increases of negative affect and tension, and/or rapid decrease of positive affect.
