About feelings, I think feelings are just as important as thoughts. Thoughts are always partial and incomplete, while feelings can give you much easier and faster access to the big picture. Feelings can be wrong, thats true, but so can thoughts. Neither is perfect and using both is therefore important.
I just want to point out that the comparison was Data and Feelings, not thoughts. While thoughts are generally accepted as more cognitive processes, if you are using bad data or have poor thought processes then you will always reach bad conclusions. generally without the intervention of well-known psychedelics our brains get into patterns of behavior based on how we process data. Our minds write their own operating systems and ways of processing data based on our experiences and genetics.
Feelings on the other hand represent bias, usually unhelpful, that skews value judgements in ways that can lead to very poor decision making. Bigotry has its genesis in feelings-based thinking, especially when a person is unaware of their own biases or both unaware and subject to them (this is called low emotional intelligence).
It used to be a criteria to be considered an adult to gain mastery over your emotions to an extent that they did not intrude on your decision making.
Understandably empathy and low emotional intelligence are mutually exclusive.
There will be a quiz on Monday.
