From The Nature of Man and the Meaning of Existence by Dr. Harold Saxton Burr, p 69-70:
What do you make of Dr. Burr's opinion?
No man can ever be completely rational and because man has a cortex, he can never be completely emotional. If he is completely emotional, in a very real sense of the word, he is an undeveloped individual. The fact that emotions provide color and some of the excitement of life leads many people to think that this is the highest level of human activity. These are the people who maintain that the primitive in all the things that man has done over the years is really, basically, the central characteristic of human behavior. This, of course, is nonsense; it is not so; the primitive is interesting historically, perhaps, but it is completely devoid of any of the content provided by the logical, imaginative, intuitive, and discriminative functions of the cortex. Emotional life is devoid of ideas, devoid of the highest functional components of the human nervous system. Moreover, it is the kind of behavior that is quite uncharacteristic of man. Remember, that man is uniquely individual. There are no two of us alike. This unique individuality is the consequence of the presence of the gray matter of the cortex. If mankind operated entirely on a sub-cortical level, on the basal ganglia or emotional level, he would no longer be unique; he would be simply one of the herd.
What do you make of Dr. Burr's opinion?