Re: Evolution of Anger and Fear

"Tom Hendricks" <tom-hendricks@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How do emotions evolve? I suggest that two of the main ones
evolved directly from two of the 4 options that are set up when
you have a cell membrane. Those are ANGER and FEAR

Four options are set up once a cell membrane is created:
1. Take in nurturing
2. block out non nurturing
3. hold in and use nurturing
4. excrete out waste.

Note how the stress response of fight and flight fits option 2 and option
4.
Fight = Option 2 block out non nurturing
Flight = Option 4 excrete out waste.

I suggest that ANGER is a specific evolved emotional response
connected to option 2.
I suggest that FEAR is a specific evolved emotional response
connected to option 4.

For the first time we can see how these basic emotional
responses evolved from physical processes that go back to the
beginning of life. Thus once life began, it started a food
in/waste out system that would most likely evolve to the
emotions of ANGER and FEAR

There should be basic emotional development for the other two
options as well.

Comment on the evolution of ANGER and FEAR?

Tom Hendricks

Tom,

Both anger and fear are properties of animals with fairly
advanced nervous systems. It's hard to see how any other kinds
of organisms can be thought of as having emotions, or how
individual cells can be thought of as having anything like
emotions. It would be an extraordinary stretch, I think, to
speak of fear or anger in trees, mushrooms, or bacteria.

Even in a metaphorical sense, I'd be inclined against your
analogies. I don't see "fear" as being like excretion. It's
more like avoidance. It's not about eliminating something from
inside but about getting away from something that's already
outside. Anger seems to me more about aggression against
something than about blocking out something. I'm having trouble
seeing any metaphorical analogy to cell membrane reactions.

Alan



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