Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post

There's also a problem if you pretend that you're acting on reason fully divorced from emotions. As difficultly as those pathways could be changed, those neurons won't migrate, and they won't degenerate. And for all the new connects that you're making to find waylays and detours around those emotional centers, their dendrites and axons will only grow so long. And that's ignoring all the key-pass chemicals that rush into the brain from time to time, all those hare-trigger hormones that a fired off to keep you safe from tigers and get you ready to validate your purpose.

Don't pretend that you can separate yourself from the world, your body, and what it needs to do to survive.
I agree with you.

Ayn Rand was arguing against the primacy of emotions and for the primacy of reason. Emotions are not reality; your goal is to use your rational faculty to the best of your ability.