@JeffDog , I am a Biologist.

since well humans arent robots that operate on pure logic

@laurentia , what is the purpose of emotion?

Nice to meet you, Rayn. I am studying physics.

Emotions are not novel, they serve a purpose.

What is that purpose?

i mean yeah of course they serve a purpose

What's that purpose?

without emotion we probably wouldnt have survived

How did they help us survive?

Love serves the purpose of furthering the race, not only through procreation, but by protectiveness, altruism, et cetera. That's an example of a purpose for an emotion.

i mean without emotion we wouldnt care for our children

or protect them

Snakes reproduce but don't love.

Why do humans?

How do you know snakes don't love?

lots of animals have emotions

Yes, like mammals.

i'm not sure about sankes though

snakes

One may not absolutely need love to reproduce or survive, but I think it definitely helps the species.

Snakes are solitary. They don't raise their young.

humans raise their young

without emotions we wouldnt care about them

without emotions we wouldnt find a partner and have kids with

Yes, and humans love AND sexually reproduce, so the purpose of love is more abstract than sex.

without emotions we wouldnt have banded together and formed societies

humans are social creatures

@JeffDog , I work in Genomics.

social animals tend to be emotional

compared to solitary ones

look at dogs vs cats

Not quite. Language is an evolution of the need of a social species where logic is abstractly built on language m

So, logic is more a consequence of humans becoming social.

Humans can't think of logic or math without thinking abstractly, first.

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.