:-) Still, the "brains" in insects work more or less the same as ours. So the hypothesis here is that something akin to emotions are a basic feature of brains +

:-) Still, the "brains" in insects work more or less the same as ours. So the hypothesis here is that something akin to emotions are a basic feature of brains + bodies. The hypothesis is not that stones have feelings although there are people who would think otherwise.