Emotions may deform and tilt the perceived reward landscape. The elicitation of emotions is reflexive, not deliberative. That is why emotions diminish agency.
Yes, I would say that emotions are some sort of special mental class: they are modulations of cognition, emphasizing certain features and preferences over others, and unlike law-like inferences, their elicitation is based on reflex rather than analytical thought. You disagree?
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I think all of the properties you ascribe to emotions also apply to "law like inferences", but it is hard for us to see them as such. For example, the truth-like property we ascribe to logical inferences is itself a mysterious, modulatory feeling (tho less nebulous in character)
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No, I think you can (and probably should) go down there and fix your foundations of rationality. The "truth-like feeling" just reflects perceptual coherence to a pattern that the brain cannot change by itself (usually sensory data or intrinsic mathematical constraints).
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