{"id":1069,"date":"2009-07-28T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2009-07-28T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T00:14:16","slug":"practical-action-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/28\/practical-action-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"practical action programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NYT, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/28\/health\/research\/28brain.html\">In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The study complements a growing body of work suggesting that the speed with which the brain reads and interprets sensations like the feelings in one\u2019s own body and emotions in the body language of others is central to avoiding imminent threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot long ago people thought of emotions as old stuff, as just feelings \u2014 feelings that had little to do with rational decision making, or that got in the way of it,\u201d said Dr. Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California. \u201cNow that position has reversed. We understand emotions as practical action programs that work to solve a problem, often before we\u2019re conscious of it. These processes are at work continually, in pilots, leaders of expeditions, parents, all of us.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NYT, In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable The study complements a growing body of work suggesting that the speed with which the brain reads and interprets sensations like the feelings in one\u2019s own body and emotions in the body language of others is central to avoiding imminent threats. \u201cNot long ago people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}