Quote Originally Posted by starmom View Post
I'm suggesting that you learn a little bit about the brain.....
Hey there.
No rolly eyes necessary.

It is possible to have a conversation about the definitions, personal vs scientific of what exactly emotion IS. I'm not threatening your world view. I'm not saying you are wrong. I am questioning the definition itself. You say emotion is the chemical cascade. I say emotion is a construct, chemical cascade or NO. The chemicals are what we experience. I am questioning whether that experience is the only definition of emotion and whether what we define as emotion is in fact only a reaction to stress, to security, to fear.

People all over discuss anthropomorphism in all species of animals and believe (some) that no animals save hum,ans have the capacity for emotion. I challenge that. I challenge that humans have the monopoly on emotion and in fact whether we have actual emotion or of we have invented words only to set ourselves apart from the animals. We ARE animals. I believe that the concept of anthropomorphism is overzealously used.

You can talk about brain structure and chemistry. Yes the brains are different. But that does not mean that our concept of emotion, feeling, perception is unassailable. Is emotion instinct? Maybe. Is emotion anything but human made? Maybe not. These things are worth discussing without derision.