It's not controversial that many mammals have emotions very very similar to humans (my wife is literally an animal welfare researcher). You're talking about mor

It's not controversial that many mammals have emotions very very similar to humans (my wife is literally an animal welfare researcher). You're talking about more about how they think than their emotions, whether they are sad because they see their dead child or sad because they regret some complex chain of events it's still the same emotion, the only difference is their ability to understand the chain of events.