Emotions provide the default settings for animal interactions. Less intelligence is required of their state, thus their limited intellect is usually sufficient to flow into a resolution of what ever situation has aroused a spontaneous emotional response. Most humans exist at this same primitive level of problem solving.
Emotions are a powerful smokescreen when it comes to the magic of intuition.
The coldest measure of this observation that I have found in the literature is this comment by an ancient master.
"The mind should be like a withered stick."
