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All I am trying to say is that there must be a final arbiter
of what to call "knowledge", and that however emotion may have
helped or hindered the process of getting there, somebody has
to be the last guard at the gate. >>
Aha! Post a guard.
Again, you are taking the stance (irrational, IMO) that our emotions are "out
to get us", rather than acknowledging them as valuable and neccessary
cognitive function of our beautifully engineered ( if little understood)
computational machinery called the human brain.
This is something like the concept of "original sin", BTW.