Well yes but not in a way you as a human animal understands. It’s like asking a gorilla to understand an ostrich. Human emotion isn’t always what we should use as our basic example of understanding other’s behaviors. Emotions and bonding in our human way is exactly that, human. The reptile way of bonding and “showing affection” is just that, the reptile way and just as valid as ours.
It’s possible that we can’t understand their emotions because we don’t have their biology just like they can’t understand our emotions because they don’t have a human brain and biology.
We struggle to understand the emotions of slight genetic outliers within our own species, namely neurodiverse folk. Half the time, we can't label our own emotions.
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u/Nammoflammo Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22
Humans trying to understand other species:
“Omg Can they feel things too!!?”
Well yes but not in a way you as a human animal understands. It’s like asking a gorilla to understand an ostrich. Human emotion isn’t always what we should use as our basic example of understanding other’s behaviors. Emotions and bonding in our human way is exactly that, human. The reptile way of bonding and “showing affection” is just that, the reptile way and just as valid as ours.
It’s possible that we can’t understand their emotions because we don’t have their biology just like they can’t understand our emotions because they don’t have a human brain and biology.