[ExI] Slavery in the Future
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 04:09:41 UTC 2008
On 21/04/2008, ablainey at aol.com <ablainey at aol.com> wrote:
> I think it would need to be a very specific application for emotions to be
> warranted.
>
> Nature has only given us our emotions as they provide an evolutionary edge
> in some way
>
> or form. Love and Jealousy being examples that don't need further
> explanation.
One could reason that Nature could have provided us with the
behavioural tendencies love and jealousy give rise to but without the
actual emotions. But in that case, why do we have emotions?
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Stathis Papaioannou
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