The PFC handles April 15; the limbic system, February 14. The former makes you grudgingly respect Into the Woods; the latter makes you tearful during Les Mis, despite knowing that you’re being manipulated. The former is engaged when juries decide guilt or innocence; the latter, when they decide how much to punish the guilty.[19] But—and this is a truly key point—rather than the PFC and limbic system either being in opposition or ignoring each other, they are usually intertwined. In order to do the correct, harder thing, the PFC requires a huge amount of limbic, emotional input.
