The most complex capability of the human brain—what I would regard as its cutting edge—is our emotional intelligence. Sitting uneasily at the top of our brain’s complex and interconnected hierarchy is our ability to perceive and respond appropriately to emotion, to interact in social situations, to have a moral sense, to get the joke, and to respond emotionally to art and music, among other high-level functions. Obviously, lower-level functions of perception and analysis feed into our brain’s emotional processing, but we are beginning to understand the regions of the brain and even to model
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