Emotion

What is the most important part of the thought process?
I would answer this with emotion. It is emotion that sparks everything else because humans feel emotion and therefore we are motivated to act on our emotions. It is almost like a cause and effect. We feel a certain way about something, our natural instincts kick in forcing us to use prior knowledge, we then turn to our imaginations to be creative and intuitive. From this experience we grow and understand as life long learners. Without emotion we have no imagination or creativity. Knowledge will not exist because experience will not exist. We would never understand why art is so important to our lives. It is true that instinct comes prior to emotion, but without emotion would we use our instincts?