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I see our various emotions not as the opposite of intelligence, but rather as high speed, roughly-tuned, very imprecise guesstimation engines. Handy where our basic intelligence is incomplete (infancy mostly), when our information is incomplete (to aid guessing) and when we need extremely fast reaction times.


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