Re: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

Hi Kay,

> Daniel Goleman tells this story in Working With Emotional
> Intelligence:
> 
> A brilliant and successful lawyer had a brain operation to remove a
> tumor.  The surgeon accidentally cut the connection to the amydala,
> the center or emotion (passion).  There were puzzling results.  The
> lawyer had no cognitive defects, yet he "became inept at work, lost
> his job,  and was unable to keep another.  He ended up out of work;
> his wife left him; he lost his house."

Antonio Damasio tells several similar stories, with a similar
outcomes, in Descartes' Error.

Dale



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