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Emotions to some extent could be conserved between related species. But this does not mean that every animal has the same repertoire of emotions. Some animals c
by jostmey 12y ago
Emotions to some extent could be conserved between related species. But this does not mean that every animal has the same repertoire of emotions. Some animals could exhibit emotions completely novel and unimaginable to the likes of us, while at the same time some emotions could be uniquely human.
I would suppose that some very basic emotions such as fear might be widely conserved among higher organisms.
- l33tbro 12y agoI don't mean to be abrupt, but did you honestly read all of the article? Your musings here are really the most rudimentary points of what the author talked about. As the author states, "evolution is filled with contingent and convergent pathways of adaptive behavior". So yeah, the anthropocentric notion that we have "all of the feels" is bunk. General intelligence is a fascinating field of neuroscience and is really making mainstream evolutionary psych seem a bit naff.