"Let me think about that" sounds like mental discipline, but "let me feel about that" (deferred emotional processing) would sound dishonest.
Intelligence (including both emotions and thoughts) is a more general adaptation than your argument suggests.
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yes, intelligence can exist long before anything like (conscious) thoughts or emotions ever come into play.
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only requires some modicum of neural networks to begin to have modeling of an environment, & informed (hopefully useful) reaction to it
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