Do animals have emotions like us? (lemmus.org)

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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

This is a pretty strange stance to argue. As far as I can see you're saying:

we can't know another animal's emotional state
some humans rarely have abnormalities in how they feel emotions
from 1 and 2 it is possible that emotional capacity is not universal in animals
from 3 it is unlikely non human animals are comparable to human animals in emotional capacity

I just don't see how you get from 3 to 4. It would seem to me given how similar humans are to at least other mammals, specifically in the neural structures we believe to be where emotions arise and in the behaviours we believe to be emotionally driven, we should strongly suspect they have emotions highly comparable to us and not the reverse.

Why would the default assumption be they don't?

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