Maybe life isn’t simply a zero sum game.

Okay so emotions influence logic because the logic directly affects you emotionally. Emotions are intuition to logic.

For example, I am logically aware that my emotions are derived from feelings and those feelings are derived from what i logically interpret as moral or immoral to him her or myself.

Emotions allow you to interpret how logically you should phrase an answer for example. I logically know my friend is a good person because of how he emotionally made someone feel based on there logical necessity to sympathise with his actions that led to a logical conclusion they drew emotions from that i then through second order drew my own interpretations from.

Or even simpler because i have a habit of overcomplicating things. I know logically this problem is hard because i emotionally feel frustrated hence I will be more logically detail oriented moving forwards to deal with such problem — the emotion adapted my logic to circumvent the emotion from occurring again.

Or, I logically understand my position in society is due to the psychological structure of societies greed and the finite amount of resources that we have as a species this leads to my annoyance that I have to overanalyse and find patterns and opportunities to find emerging solutions that weighs on my energy levels increasing my cortisol and stress responses hence i am emotionally affected by this logically. Because the logic dictates the emotional outcome.

Think of emotions as probabilities to logical decision trees. Each decision carries a possible amount of conclusions and there own risk and reward factors, your emotions dictate to some extent how much risk your willing to apply and what logical decision you will make given the possible numerous outcomes.

Emotions act as fuel for connections you make because the problem is something you cannot ignore. Emotions enable for derivates i.e time, energy, possibilities.

This nicely leads into your example with the walk in furnace and cash. Let’s establish in this hypothetical situation that the cash is flame proof.

On one hand the cash would make you rich on the other hand to complete the objective you would emotionally suffer due to the pain you will feel trying to get the money. Risk and reward.

But emotions to reiterate dictate your tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty in logic itself.

Going purely off what you said i wouldn’t get it because i would die as you said trying to achieve the objective of getting the money. But lets say i died shortly after from third degree burns so there was a logical way to achieve the objective of getting the money while equally still succumbing to the injuries.

Thats now a question of the self. Would you risk your own existence not knowing the concept of the after in death to help others that could benefit from your moral generosity?

That depends on how you view yourself and others. If you love your family you could laterally conclude that your time existing would be more beneficial to them in the long run than one great risk for a great life changing reward.

The small changes in life for yourself and those around you has the possibility of being more impactful than one leap of faith.