Humans Can't Be Empathetic And Logical At The Same Time
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[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;38329686]And it is already known that each half of the brain specializes in different things, and that [B]the brain controls the opposite side of the body.[/B][/QUOTE]
That wouldn't change how you think, though, because you still think about tool manipulation with your left hemisphere, same as everyone else.
It has less to do with lefty brains/righty brains and more [URL="http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/01/brain.aspx"]degree of lateralization,[/URL] which handedness isn't a good predictor of.
[QUOTE=DanRatherman;38327448]But luckily, humans can remember information longer than two seconds, so we can think of empathy and logic separately then conglomerate the two with reasoning.[/QUOTE]
Indeed.
This bullshit in the source (though others have gotten it wrong) about "analytic CEOs" and so on has no relevance to this actual study. It simply finds "there is a physiological constraint on our ability to simultaneously engage two distinct cognitive modes", not that this is something present outside the immediate focus on a task. They used the "neurologically normal" and found social and mechanical tasks inhibited the opposite in everyone. They then shifted back, and would shift to whatever else they were presented with.
The title of this, basically, is flat out wrong, and our hypothetical asshole CEO is still an asshole. You can actually be both empathetic and logical at the same time, when "processes associated with the task positive network operate on representations stored in the default network".
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I hate always having to say this- [I][B]do not post something from PopSci[/B].[/I] They have repeatedly demonstrated they are among the worst of science news sources in existence.
Emotions are things and, as such, they have an impact on the world. therefore, it would be illogical to ignore them.
Empathy is not logic; it is a posteriori. However, one can use logic to justify their empathy, as in the case of the categorical imperative.
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