you could say religion is based on emotion

and that shaped human society forever basically

Yes, but what does it do?

I feel like most of religion is built on emotion.

art is emotional

Emotion correspond to motivation. You know, you eat because your hungry. So emotions motivate decisions, but it doesn't lead to good decisions in itself.

So humans being emotional simply means humans are prompted to do.

Large parts of emotional wiring share things with sensations.

Like if i punch you, it hurts.

If you're feelings are hurt, it, well, hurts.

So all you're really saying is humans feel sensations. That's it.

Rayn, do you think that emotions started with things like single-celled organisms being attracted to food and helpful things and repelled by dangerous substances and organisms?

No.

Emotions and sensations seem like essentially the same thing to me.

You're familiar with Boltzman entropy?

Emotions seem like sensations based on brain signals, rather than directly on sensory input.

No, not at all. I can look it up though.

Ooh, duh. Yes, entropy. I am familiar.

ok rayn what do you do for fun since thats an emotional thing

sorry, brain fart

Microstates

Basically, energy from the sun hits the Earth in unequal ways. Well, just like how warm water cools, that heat dissipated.

If you take warm water, you have little order, but if you freeze it, you have order that forms the solid of ice.

The order of life is created from energy from geological vents and the sun dissipating where replication is a good way to do so.

Basically, life replicates because it is acting as entropy on the environment.

Single celled organisms came to be because of energy dissipation and hydrophobic and hydrophilic molecular interaction.

Emotions are waaaaaaay more abstract.

When you eat and shit, the shit is in a more disordered state. You built order in yourself but made the universe more disordered.

You know how oil and water don't mix. Something like that is how life came to be.

Basically, something got energy, the energy spread out, created order, and the most convenient way for it to spread is by life eating stuff

All the energy of your body likely came from the sun.

Life is nothing more than a really good solar powered engine.

I agree that emotions are far more abstract than anything a single-celled organism experiences, but I tend to think they are basically super-complex versions of sensations, involving far more neurons.

I love mathematical elegance, and the math behind life is gorgeous.

I would love to know more about the math behind life.

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Emotions are only slightly caused by neurons.

Is cortisol a neuron?

I love the math behind physics, and any science has elegant math that can blow the mind.

How about adrenaline?

Testosterone?