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I don't believe that humans came from a single cell organism. I don't even believe that we came from apes.
I do believe in the survival of the fittest and the evolutionary processes associated with it. I just don't buy the whole mutation theory.
With that said I've always wondered about how such complicated emotions evolved in humans. Like I said, I don't believe we came from apes, so this is kind of an issue for those that do.
Humans have an extremely complex emotional state, we are literally controlled by our emotions minute by minute. Our will to survive is affected by these emotions in a powerful way. For example, we are the only species on earth that commits suicide or believes we would be better off dead.
Ape emotion is extremely rudimentary compared to human emotion. It just doesn't even come close in any way, in fact, dolphins probably have a more complex emotional structure than apes.
That being said, our emotions must have developed through a mutation.
So one day there was an ape baby that was born with a much higher level of emotion and therefore a much higher level of consciousness.
We are to believe that this young ape procreated? This ape with a superior understanding of the world around him and a realization of his life and of his death communicated and flourished within his community of primitive and unenlightened fellow apes?
Okay, so this may be a childish or ignorant way to look at evolution.
The point I'm making here is that having emotions is for the most part a bad thing when it comes to survival. An animal does what it needs to do to survive in it's habitat. It kills what needs to be killed, it eats what needs to be eaten, it does all these things with no thought of right or wrong.
An animal has no conscience and feels no guilt.
So how did we get where we are now? How did beings with these fragile emotional states flourish and become the rulers over the others.
Posted : 07/01/2006 1:57 pm
All emotions arise from the perception that something is either good or bad.
It's interesting that many psychologists believe that children are born without emotions, that they learn emotions, just as they learn to read and write. In other words, our emotions are a socially conditioned act we put on, like the crazy women crying for Tookie, not all of us get it right, some of us don't even come close.
Here are some excertps from an article from the World Book Encylopedia on Emotions.
"Psychologists think there are two types of emotions, positive emotions and negative emotions. Positive emotions include love, liking, joy delight, and hope. They are aroused by something that appeals to a person. Negative emotions make a person unhappy, or dissatisfied. They include anger, fear, despair, sadness, and disgust.
the most fascinating thing about emotions, though, is that they are, telekinetic, they provoke real, physical changes in the matter of our own bodies, caused them to become engorged with blood, making our heart beat faster.
Posted : 07/01/2006 9:22 pm
So how did we get where we are now? How did beings with these fragile emotional states flourish and become the rulers over the others.[/QUOTE
We can always find a little something bad in everything good if we look hard enough. Our "emotions" serve us well more often than not Whiteman. Amongst other things, they help us determine right from wrong.....they help to make us civilized. People who lack emotion are sociopaths.........look to the racial composition of our prison population....there's a primo example of a "society" within a society whose people lack emotion.......and where it gets ya.
Support Bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have.
Posted : 11/01/2006 7:56 am