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.

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.