Quote Originally Posted by ZinniaZ View Post
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.
What is emotion? What is happening to your bodies when your happy or sad? Why do people take pills for depression? Why do people feel really happy on shrooms, and cry when coming down? Why does alcohol make us overly emotional... laughing or tripping out and beating the face in of the guy next to us?


It's all physiological. If an animal lacks the area of the brain able to put out the hormones or fire those neurons... are we still going to say they feel emotions like animals that have that area?

Now it's starting to sound superstitious.