Damasio proposes that somatic markers direct attention towards more advantageous options, simplifying the decision process.

Only when the core has exhausted all advantageous options of geographic and cultural similarity will it seek to expand to a periphery that is truly foreign.

The new Innovia Metro still offers linear motor propulsion as the advantageous option but an electric rotary propulsion version is also marketed.

By tagging particular stimuli with an emotion associated with a bodily change, it helps to speed up the process of decision-making when it is encountered by eliminating unsuitable choices and ensuring only advantageous options are considered and fully processed.