The point of emotions—which I see I failed to make sufficiently explicit in this post, from the frequent questions about it—is that their original purpose was to prepare the body to take some physical, real-world action… and thus they were built in to our memory/prediction systems long before we reused those systems to “think” or “reason” with.
Brains weren’t originally built for thinking—they were built for emoting: motivating co-ordinated physical action.
The point of emotions—which I see I failed to make sufficiently explicit in this post, from the frequent questions about it—is that their original purpose was to prepare the body to take some physical, real-world action… and thus they were built in to our memory/prediction systems long before we reused those systems to “think” or “reason” with.
Brains weren’t originally built for thinking—they were built for emoting: motivating co-ordinated physical action.