Emotion - "E" Description

PALETTE OF EMOTIONS 

Emotion is a strange, vague, unsteady department of human existence. Everything about him is mysterious. And at first, what is most surprising is how nature could create such psychotypes in which Emotion would be at the top. After all, the upper functions are the main weapon of a person. But can emotions serve as weapons? What feelings can be identified with a club? At best, an emotional nature can scare away an animal in the forest, a robber in the city, or pity the executioner with tears. But this seems to be the end of the matter. 

Frankly, I was tormented for a long time by the thought of the role of emotion in the life and psyche of a person (after all, nature does not create anything in vain), until I came across an article about marital relations in animals, and the facts presented in it made it possible to quite plausibly reconstruct the origin and meaning of feelings. 

The fact is that in fact, emotion is a powerful weapon, but not a universal weapon, but adapted to one narrow sphere - the sphere of love confrontation. Apparently, the emotional function, first of all, is a love function, and the one whose Emotion is high has a greater chance of becoming the winner in a love rivalry. Here is the power behind him. 

The origin of Emotion is this. At first, it branched off from Physics, or more precisely, from its sexual department. The need for such budding was that in animals sexual activity (unlike humans) is episodic. Therefore, quite early on, they developed a need for special warning signs about their short-term readiness to mate. One of these signs was a love cry - the forerunner of modern emotions. Croaking, singing like a nightingale, squealing like a cat, the animal, according to the ethologist, “begins to demonstrate its condition. Demonstrations leave indifferent individuals with an inactivated reproductive system, but in activated individuals they, like a key in a lock, unlock response instinctive programs. Individuals of the same "The sexes are stimulated to exhibit the same behavior. The result is a competition in the execution of programs, with each trying to outdo the others." Naturally, competitions of this kind are often won by the most vocal individuals, i.e. in the language of psychosophy, an individual with a high-ranking Emotion. Over time, natural selection globally consolidated the victory of the emotionalists, placing the entire land under their control. 

Of course, as relationships in animal communities became more complex, the emotional palette became more complex and enriched, gradually growing into a whole system of signs. And the appearance of man in general produced a whole revolution in the field of application of emotions, firstly, making it practically inexhaustible, but, most importantly, by its transition to year-round sexual life, abolishing the sexual dominance of emotions. 

However, to this day, as an echo of the sexual sphere, feelings continue to bear the reflection of their origin. And it’s not even about writing poetry and performing serenades, which usually precede physical intimacy. The point is that regardless of the specifics of a love relationship, which does not necessarily involve sexual arousal, we continue to judge them solely by the strength of the experiences we experience and observe. Therefore, returning to the problem of the origin and role of Emotion, it should be noted that, as in the time of the first frogs, Emotion continues to be the strongest weapon in the love struggle, and, ultimately, in the struggle for procreation. And therefore nature, despite its apparent lack of viability, continues to widely and abundantly produce individuals with high-ranking Emotion.

All of humanity, depending on the position of Emotion at the levels of the functional hierarchy, is divided into “romantics” (1st Emotion), “actors” (2nd Emotion), “crackers” (3rd Emotion) and “onlookers” (4th Emotion). Why exactly these and not other names were given to representatives of different levels of emotional function, I hope the reader will understand from the further story.