Isn't human emotion fascinating?

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Murphy Durphy
I wondered the other day why we as humans need the emotion love, on an evolutionary sense. Every emotion we feel has a reason. Nothing is completely useless. Anyways, I came up with this:

We have "love" to keep us close to people. Without love, we wouldn't give a damn who we were with, and probably would live most of our lives as solitary beings. Why would we need to be close to people? Strength in numbers. So as an evolutionary tool to keep us in packs and to keep the species thriving, "love" was created. Nowadays, however, there is really no need to stay in packs. So like the tail bone, love often causes more problems than it fixes.

Love increases the chances of survival. Propogation of the species is the number 1 priority.

Yep... we learned that exact same phrase in Anthropology.

Wow. I just made that up.

i call shens...
that "theory" has been around forever. it wasn't something recent.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: l Xes l

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
we are complicated creatures

I wonder if other animals can feel emotions like we can.

duh.. we ALL are animals..

You are right, but we are animals of different intelligence levels. Is the only reason we feel emotion is because we are "smarter" than monkies, birds, insects, etc? Or do they feel emotions just like we do, regardless of intelligence or not?

I personally believe they have feelings also. Thinking of my dog he can be happy or sad at times it seems.

 

[gigapet]

Logical response > emotional

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: Murphy Durphy
I wondered the other day why we as humans need the emotion love, on an evolutionary sense. Every emotion we feel has a reason. Nothing is completely useless. Anyways, I came up with this:

We have "love" to keep us close to people. Without love, we wouldn't give a damn who we were with, and probably would live most of our lives as solitary beings. Why would we need to be close to people? Strength in numbers. So as an evolutionary tool to keep us in packs and to keep the species thriving, "love" was created. Nowadays, however, there is really no need to stay in packs. So like the tail bone, love often causes more problems than it fixes.

Love increases the chances of survival. Propogation of the species is the number 1 priority.

Yep... we learned that exact same phrase in Anthropology.

Wow. I just made that up.

i call shens...
that "theory" has been around forever. it wasn't something recent.

I'm not saying I'm a pioneer of that theory, I've just never learned it in a classroom.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: l Xes l

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: DotheDamnTHing
we are complicated creatures

I wonder if other animals can feel emotions like we can.

duh.. we ALL are animals..

You are right, but we are animals of different intelligence levels. Is the only reason we feel emotion is because we are "smarter" than monkies, birds, insects, etc? Or do they feel emotions just like we do, regardless of intelligence or not?

Animals certainly feel emotion; there was a very interesting article on it in this month's Psychology Today (free - thanks Hot Deals!). Research points toward emotion emanating from a primal area of the brain which we share with many other life forms. Studies have shown chimps to display a wide manner of emotion, including a sense of justice/fairness.

 

[Psycho18]

Wow.....just reading all of this is interesting.....

 

[GeneValgene]

Originally posted by: gigapet
Logical response > emotional

maybe for you...

take this example. you and your brother are trying to escape from someone who is trying to kill you. let's say your brother is mentally impaired, and physically handicapped, and he is slowing you down. logically, leaving your brother behind would increase your chances of survival, and the life of your brother really provides no survival advantage to you. however, most of us would not leave our brother behind, even if it meant staying with him to death.

emotional responses for many, prove to be stronger than logic.

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: jndietz
That when someone dies, you feel sad, and your eyes cry?

That or we express the emotion of happiness and laughter.

YES!

I have never seen a dog laugh, or a cat, or a fish, or a bird! Maybe it is intelligence after all.

But I wonder why it was us that was blessed with such things, and not every other creature.

EDIT: I never thought about a dog wagging it's tail.

um, maybe it's because they can't?

 

[Saint Nick]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: jndietz
That when someone dies, you feel sad, and your eyes cry?

That or we express the emotion of happiness and laughter.

YES!

I have never seen a dog laugh, or a cat, or a fish, or a bird! Maybe it is intelligence after all.

But I wonder why it was us that was blessed with such things, and not every other creature.

EDIT: I never thought about a dog wagging it's tail.

um, maybe it's because they can't?

I wonder if its because the physically can't or if they emotionally can't!

 

[lyssword]

fascinating *puts on that Peter Grifin look after he's taken IQ test that has shown him to be a retard*

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: jndietz
That when someone dies, you feel sad, and your eyes cry?

That or we express the emotion of happiness and laughter.

YES!

I have never seen a dog laugh, or a cat, or a fish, or a bird! Maybe it is intelligence after all.

But I wonder why it was us that was blessed with such things, and not every other creature.

EDIT: I never thought about a dog wagging it's tail.

um, maybe it's because they can't?

I wonder if its because the physically can't or if they emotionally can't!

Such ego... If someone speaks in a language you don't understand, are they not really talking, but rather simply spouting gibberish?

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: RBachman

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919

Originally posted by: jndietz

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy

Originally posted by: jndietz
That when someone dies, you feel sad, and your eyes cry?

That or we express the emotion of happiness and laughter.

YES!

I have never seen a dog laugh, or a cat, or a fish, or a bird! Maybe it is intelligence after all.

But I wonder why it was us that was blessed with such things, and not every other creature.

EDIT: I never thought about a dog wagging it's tail.

um, maybe it's because they can't?

I wonder if its because the physically can't or if they emotionally can't!

Such ego... If someone speaks in a language you don't understand, are they not really talking, but rather simply spouting gibberish?

Bingo! QFT