Exploring Logic & Emotion (Part 1)

Link: http://illimitablemen.com/2015/04/29/exploring-logic-emotion-part-1/

Synopsis:

This post is somewhat esoteric and may pose difficult to grasp for many. As such, I do not expect it to be widely accessible, and have thus opted to include the most easily grasped and directly RP relevant excerpt here. For those who want to read the full piece, the link is above. Part 2 is coming soon, which will take a look at stoicism among other aspects in the relationship between logic and emotion.

Contents:

1.) A Crude Side by Side Comparison

2.) Pseudo-Logic: Rationalisation & Sophistry

3.) Women, Logic, Emotion & Intelligence

4.) In Closing

Excerpt:

3.) Women, Logic, Emotion & Intelligence

Most humans lack a basic self-awareness and sense of disciplined mastery over their emotions regardless of whether their personal preference is for logic or emotion. One could argue that man does effectively wield anger to simultaneously bolster his logical convictions, although this is of course only possible when anger remains anger, a suitable amount of reasoning faculty is present, and anger has not turned to rage.

We often view women, in spite of their education, as less intelligent than men because of their preference for emotion. One could be a genius, but if dominated by emotion, would have their sense of reason so inhibited by the dictates of emotion that such genius would be frivolously wasted, imprisoned even. Such is the observation we see with incredibly intelligent women, how can somebody so smart seem so stupid? Well indeed, a woman is still a woman, and no matter how objectively intelligent IQ tests may claim her to be in matters of logic or numerics, she still shares the emotional preferences and lizard brain of women of lesser intelligence. Indeed, her intelligence does, to an extent, make her less womanly, but it does not stop her from being a woman. One could say intelligence spoils women, for too much intelligence can detract from the very essence of what man considers feminine, whilst simultaneously making her a poor imitation of man.

So regardless of objective IQ (a flawed metric that does not measure the totality of intelligence, no less) we perceive "being logical" as synonymous with "being reasonable," whilst correlating unreasonableness with "being emotional." Of course, it is a universal truth where such truth is not dogmatically denied that women have a strong preference for emotion, whilst man, for reason. This is not to say that neither are capable of exhibiting either, but rather simply that, given a choice, women prefer to satiate their feelings whilst men prefer to make conscious, cost-benefit driven decisions. Of course, preferences do not equate to outcomes, but they heavily influence them.

If a high IQ woman is to be consistently unreasonable, this creates the perception of stupidity and indeed undermines not just her own credibility, but the metric of IQ itself. If an average IQ man is to be consistently reasonable, this instinctually conveys a sense of intelligence to our perception. Must one be good at numerics to be logical in the complete sense of the word? I suspect not.