"Let me think about that" sounds like mental discipline, but "let me feel about that" (deferred emotional processing) would sound dishonest.
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Thinking takes time, feelings are instantaneous. If they aren't, then you haven't thought it through yet.
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Thinking never ends, only starts. Emotions evolve with more conclusions and inferences.
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Emotions are echos of thoughts. You cant feel about something you didnt comprehend, or something that's out of your mind for the moment
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Considering some more, this is actually a really bad metaphor. There is no 1:1 correspondence between thoughts and emotions.
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that's like asking "point to part of canvas with no paint on it" Background emotional texture is continuous. Thought is discrete.
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conscious thought in the sense of either verbal thought or non-verbal but deliberate actions is discrete
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A simple example is a baby in pre-verbal state. Cries/smiles randomly in response to sensory and memory processes
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