• daddy32@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Until we have better understanding and dictionary for their emotions, using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      2 months ago

      I’m not even sure a shared taxonomy of human emotions is particularly accurate, given how differently people sense even nameable emotions.

      But they’re still valid emotions ofc, just kinda unknowable

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      2 months ago

      using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation

      It can be, but it can also be a gross misrepresentation. Outside of higher mammals, it seems safer to me to assume that their emotions are extremely dissimilar and human emotions are poor analogues at best.

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        2 months ago

        That does not mean they do not have value.

        Also I’m shocked we haven’t seen a snake person come and argue they get depressed.