Emotion is more critical than reason in the choices that we make. However, most of our emotional intelligence is in our subconscious. This is the logic of the chukim, which seemingly make no rational sense, including such statues as the prohibition of sowing mixed seeds together, or mixing wool and linen, or meat and milk. Considering contemporary neuroscience, these laws are designed to bypass the rational brain, establishing instinctive behavior patterns to counteract dark emotional drives in the mind.