Brain Quote by Antonio Damasio

“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”

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Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.

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