Quite obviously emotions are a continuum that correlates with intelligence. The most intelligent animals feel/express the most sophisticated emotions. To thin

Quite obviously emotions are a continuum that correlates with intelligence. The most intelligent animals feel/express the most sophisticated emotions. To think otherwise would be clearly contrary to science (i.e. you believe in souls transcending to the physical world; OR you believe that a deity made an 100% equitative distribution of emotions among his creatures, from the worm to the dolphin). This point is defended in Hofstadter's works.