On human evolution how did we devolve feelings.?

Question

If evolution is true were does emotion come from,the brain if you say the brain you need to get one.no offense

Sorry about the grammar. I was doing the question so fast and I never read the spell check.

Answer 1

Given that a specific structure, the amygdala, gives emotional tags to memories, the brain is the seat of emotion. The primitive pleasure / pain centers connecting with a complex cerebral cortex create the capacity for complex emotion. Emotions were good for survival, since it allowed packs to bond. Observe non-human primates, and you can see primitive emotion.

Answer 2

First you ask for an explanation, then you say that those who have an explanation must not have a brain. THEN you say "no offense". Incredible.

Do you want a sincere answer? The books are out there. Go to the library and read up.

- http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB430.html
- http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/emotion.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
- Griffiths, Paul E. What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
- The Evolution of Behavior Smith, Scientific American, Sept 1978 Xenopsychology R. A. Freitas, Analog Apr 81
- Directly Interacting Extra-terrestrial Technological Communities Viewing, JBIS, vol 28, pp 735-755, 1975
- Computer Simulation of Cultural Drift: Limits on Interstellar Colonization Bainbridge, JBIS, vol 37, pp 420-429, 1984
- The Improbability of Behavioral Convergence in Aliens Behavioral Implications of Morphology Coffey, JBIS, vol 38, pp 515-520, 1985
- The climatic background to the birth of civilization Lamb, Advancement of Science vol 25 pp 103 - 120 1968

In short, our brains are used to 1) get what we want and 2) stay out of trouble. I don't see why it's so far-fetched to think how simple emotions like content and fear can lead to more complex emotions

Answer 3

"If evolution is true were does emotion come from"

The brain.

"if you say the brain you need to get one"

Says the dude with the atrocious grammar and spelling. Not only that, but it's really ignorant to ask a question, then make an ad hominem attack on a potential answerer.

"no offense"

Whenever somebody says 'no offense', be prepared to be offended.

Maybe YOU need to get a brain. If you're going to insult people in your question, the least you could do is learn how to write proper English, Einstein.

Answer 4

If you're going to tell people that they 'need to get a brain' maybe you should master the basic skills of grammar, punctuation, and spelling first.

It has been proven, scientifically, that emotion is nothing more than chemical responses in the brain to external stimuli. The notion of feelings 'coming from the heart' is romantic, but completely unrealistic. Ironically, the endorphines released in the minds of the faithful during prayer, are the same ones released into a heroin addict when he shoots up.

Answer 5

If Christianity is true w(h)ere does emotion come from,the brain if you say the brain you need to get one.no offense

Answer 6

Neurons firing off in the brain - and don't tell me I need to get one, because there are numerous studies which prove this.

Edit: I just saw that you actually put "devolve" in the question. Wow.

I'll talk a little on the emotion of fear. Say you're living 100,000 years ago in Africa, as most - if not all - humans were. A large animal (a rhinoceros, for argument's sake) comes charging at you. According to your line of thinking, what you would do is stand there, think about being afraid or not - and them boom, you're dead. For a person whose neurons were properly working, you would become afraid and instinctively run from the object causing fear. Thank evolution for those neurons!

Answer 7

Evolution theory is not an "all encompassing alternate answer to everything". It is a scientific theory. It does not make a mention of emotion. As someone who believes in evolution, and god (not christian), I can give you my take. Emotion evolved from basic feelings. Dogs and bees can smell fear, for example, is not just a proverb, it really is true. The spirituality of humans is still in an evolutionary state. The ideas that create strife will be cast away, while the ones the help all (the planet, not just people) will be the ones to survice and flourish.

Answer 8

In so far as I know, Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" does not touch on human feelings. (I'm signing off for the night because I fly to Chicago in the morning and then on to the Coast. Which is to say, I'm busy and didn't read your post beyond the initial question. Now I have. You are a sad little man, you know that? Go far in life you shall not.)

Answer 9

Backwards? Going backwards in evolution is like going backwards in time - not conceivable. modern-day WESTERN society could properly be considered as an evolutionary stress in itself - financial stress, pollutants, stress, conflict! interior the 0.33 international the previous classic pressures are nonetheless there, ailment, famine, conflict! whether incredibly lots truthfully everyone became surviving to breeding age so what! The inhabitants might develop to the kind of element that obtainable components might run out and then, as happens in all closed environmental structures ( to that end planet Earth), ---- CRASH! Its then that determination stress might quite start to tell and while it comes that's going to the two result interior the extinction of the species or a clean homo greater advantageous.

Answer 10

I think emotion has evolved as well as our physical bodies. We are capable of feeling things, and we process that feeling in our brains. Over time, emotions developed from training our brains to feel certain ways through conditioning. The repetitive thoughts and experiences over generations and millenia have taught us how to be emotional.

And don't we love drama!