Episode 135: The Science of Emotion
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Functions of Emotions
Emotions are not just kind of there. They do something, right? They exist for a purpose. And by that I don't necessarily mean they've been finally honed by evolution to like do the exact right thing that we would want. That's a common misconception that evolution is an optimizer. It isn't. So we should not think that emotions are like perfectly adaptive or anything like that,. But they do have some purpose, which is why they exist.
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