Timeline for Do animals feel emotions, or display empathy?
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 21:30 | comment | added | John | I have added sources and will add more, it took some time to turn paper sources into linked sources. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 21:29 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 15:39 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | This answer needs some sources. As it stands, it flatly asserts that any animal that can learn has emotions, with absolutely nothing to back that statement up. Also, how are you defining "emotion"? You seem to suggest that pain or discomfort is an emotion, which I think most people would disagree with. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 13:25 | history | edited | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2018 at 13:19 | comment | added | John | emotions can be instinctual, I mean there are those that think they work off pure logic like a computer program, that animal brains are completely different from ours in that animals do not have qualitative experiences. That a dog does not feel pleasure when it eats or disgust when it smells something foul but that it is acting like a robot executing a program. | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 5:16 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | Some people think animals operate on pure logic? Does that mean that in their minds, they contemplate, "If A, then B?" Or, "if A is true, and B = A, then B is true?" Or do you mean instinct? | |
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| Mar 25, 2018 at 22:22 | comment | added | John | defining individual emotions can be tricky the exact number is hotly debated, we have really good information for some and really poor information for others. to answer your specific example a dog definitely feels, pleasure, pain, disgust, anger and fear. Trust and grief are likely as well. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 22:20 | comment | added | John | why would feeling soil be an emotion? | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | Remi.b | ... Assuming "feeling the grainy Martian soil under one's feet" is an emotion, can you tell me which animal feels it? Maybe "feeling the grainy Martian soil under one's feet" is not an emotion, but then we really need a definition. | |
| Mar 25, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | Remi.b |
Can you please define emotion? Not every animal is going feel them all do you exclude all humans? Can you give an example that, say a dog, can't feel, just to see how far fetch it needs to be? a sponge [..] feels no emotions Individual cells can feel the lack of a nutrient. Isn't that an emotion?! As for specific emotions as far as we can tell every emotion is represented somewhere in the animal kingdom. Do you have a reference for that claim? ...
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| Mar 25, 2018 at 16:55 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |