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The Feeling Brain drives our Consciousness Car because, ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion.
As Daniel Kahneman once put it, the Thinking Brain is “the supporting character who imagines herself to be the hero.”17
It’s incredibly easy to let your Thinking Brain fall into the trap of merely drawing the maps the Feeling Brain wants to follow. This is called the “self-serving bias,” and it’s the basis for pretty much everything awful about humanity.
Equalization is present in every experience because the drive to equalize is emotion itself. Sadness is a feeling of powerlessness to make up for a perceived loss. Anger is the desire to equalize through force and aggression. Happiness is feeling liberated from pain, while guilt is the feeling that you deserve some pain that never arrived.10
