Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
by throwaway173738 on Sunday September 20, 2026 @10:39AM
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This is too mechanistic. You also choose which emotions to pay attention to.
Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented
by pixl97 on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:28PM
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This is too simple in itself.
When your afraid you can choose to ignore the fear, but you are still afraid and it has physical effects that can be measured. There is at least a trinary state of possible outcomes and as the situation space becomes more complex and solutions drift apart on all 3.
On a personal meatbag level emotions are magical and something ineffable.
From a scientific stance, chemical make brain go happy or sad and there's nothing special or magical about that. Every emotion we feel is because it was evolutionarily valuable for us to do so.