"Damasio (1996) has observed that such bodily experiences have correlates in the brain's somatosensory system which are registered and can be seen via neuroimaging in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex as 'somatic markers' that play an important role in decision making. This raises the possibility that emotions are constituted by the bodily effects that are registered in brain during emotional experience."
He also said in this piece:
"Real reason is inexplicably tied up with emotion; you cannot be rational without being emotional. False reason thinks that emotion is the enemy of reason, that it is unscrupulous to call on emotion. Yet people with brain damage who cannot feel emotion cannot make rational decisions because they do not know what to want, since like and not like mean nothing. 'Rational' decisions are based on a long history of emotional responses by oneself and others. Real reason requires emotion."
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