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Leaving Out Appraisal Also Would Render The Biological Description Of The Phenomena Of Emotion Vulnerable To The Caricature That Emotions Without An Appraisal Phase Are Meaningless Events. It Would Be More Difficult To See How Beautiful And Amazingly Intelligent Emotions Can Be, And How Powerfully They Can Solve Problems For Us.

There's Something That Intervenes And Is Very Important Which Has To Do With Value. Value In The True Biological Sense, Which Is That Contrary To What Many People Seem To Think, Taking It At Face Value - Sorry For The Pun - We Do Not Give The Same Amount Of Emotional Significance To Every Event.

Rather Than Being A Luxury, Emotions Are A Very Intelligent Way Of Driving An Organism Toward Certain Outcomes.

The Autobiographical Self Has Prompted Extended Memory, Reasoning, Imagination, Creativity And Language. And Out Of That Came The Instruments Of Culture - Religions, Justice, Trade, The Arts, Science, Technology.

More May Have Been Learned About The Brain And The Mind In The 1990s - The So-called Decade Of The Brain - Than During The Entire Previous History Of Psychology And Neuroscience.