Message from @laurentia
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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.
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.
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?