Because of her brain damage, Tammy lacks the ability to integrate her bodily signals into her decision making. So she has no way to rapidly compare the overall value between options, no way to prioritize the dozens of details that she can articulate. That’s why Tammy stays on the sofa much of the time: none of the choices in front of her carry any particular emotional value. There’s no way to tip one network’s campaign over any other. The debates in her neural parliament continue along in deadlock.
