Emotions: ZOHA

Some may argue that emotions are in us from birth. Hence, they believe that expressing emotion is a completely biological process. If emotions are something we feel inside shouldn’t this be related to something un-physical? If one is saying that emotions are innate then we’re simply interpreting how we feel as psycho-chemical reactions in our brain.
Therefore “love” should be our reaction to hormones, and “fear” is just the result of high blood pressure and the release of adrenaline into the blood. It has been argued that if emotions weren’t innate how could a baby cry at birth.

The crying of a baby at birth isn’t an expression of “sadness” whatsoever but a reflex action. A baby doesn’t learn to cry due to “sadness’ or ‘anger’ until a certain age where he/she acquires that emotion. Before this, the act of crying is an exercise of vocal cords and the means of communication, a baby may cry because it’s hungry or thirty are these emotions? If one placed a nervous system into a robot who could then express laughter, crying, fear, sadness one would then have to support the idea that the robot is human.

Emotions are what makes us human and distinguishes us from animals. We don’t see a crying dog, or a laughing cat even though they have a nervous system too. Sure, one may argue that they express their emotions in another manner but it is scientifically proven for now that animals don’t have emotions. Therefore I would have to say that emotions are something we learn through experience and the environment.. As we get older we forget the last time we did something for the first time. For example if you’ve never touched snow would you know what it feels like?