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" This has recently led to the proof that the links between logic and emotionality in the human brain structure go deeper than any self-observation, however acute, is capable of comprehending. This discipline’s results culminate in the demand to shelve the dream of purely apathetic-noetic theory. The main figure to mention here is António R. Damásio, whose studies on human and animal consciousness exposed the “Cartesian” dualism of reason and emotion as untenable and demonstrated the key role of emotions for all cognitive processes.3 "

Peter Sloterdijk , The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice


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Peter Sloterdijk quote : This has recently led to the proof that the links between logic and emotionality in the human brain structure go deeper than any self-observation, however acute, is capable of comprehending. This discipline’s results culminate in the demand to shelve the dream of purely apathetic-noetic theory. The main figure to mention here is António R. Damásio, whose studies on human and animal consciousness exposed the “Cartesian” dualism of reason and emotion as untenable and demonstrated the key role of emotions for all cognitive processes.3