Do-humans-have-feelings

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do-humans-have-feelings

Title text: This comic was posted in order to increase my social status, acquire wealth, and thus improve the reproductive fitness of my offspring.

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D programmed to act like they do?

- -emotional states, just for the sake of having them.

Programming, obviously.

Humans were designed by evolution to use emotions to make heuristic decisions and manipulate other social beings.

But they really think they're feeling emotions.

Uh huh.

You know how you feel bad whenever someone dies?

Humans only feel bad when humans they know die. Especially ones who are kin.

Of course. Every second or so.

Genetic programming coupled to cpu resource maximization.

Bingo

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It's ok to tell them since they're incapable of sadness \

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