"You perform a surgical ablation on a piece of someone’s brain (say, to remove a tumor and tissue around it) with the sole resulting effect of **an inability to register emotions**, nothing else (the IQ and every other faculty remain the same). What you have done is a controlled experiment to separate someone’s intelligence from his emotions. Now you have a purely rational human being unencumbered with feelings and emotions. Let’s watch: [[Damasio]] reported that **the purely unemotional man was incapable of making the simplest decision. He could not get out of bed in the morning, and frittered  away his days fruitlessly weighing decision**s" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[making-decisions]], [[emotions]], [[teaching-anecdotes]] **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]