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[-] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

Yeah, why is it "just chance"? I don't understand the idea that animals have no emotions, it's weird.

[-] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

We all know they do. It just makes compartmentalizing other.. activities easier for some people.

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

But they are not human emotions, so to assign human emotions to animals is a misnomer.

[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Until we have better understanding and dictionary for their emotions, using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 months ago

I'm not even sure a shared taxonomy of human emotions is particularly accurate, given how differently people sense even nameable emotions.

But they're still valid emotions ofc, just kinda unknowable

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation

It can be, but it can also be a gross misrepresentation. Outside of higher mammals, it seems safer to me to assume that their emotions are extremely dissimilar and human emotions are poor analogues at best.

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That does not mean they do not have value.

Also I'm shocked we haven't seen a snake person come and argue they get depressed.

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