Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures

Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures

depression, and dogs happiness and dejection? People disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animal beings (hereafter animals), especially concerning the question of whether any animals other than humans can feel emotions (Ekman 1998). Pythagoreans long ago believed that animals experience the same range of emotions as humans (Coates 1998), and current research provides compelling evi...

Exploring the Compositionality of Emotions in Text: Word Emotions, Sentence Emotions and Automated Tagging

This paper presents an approach to automated marking up of texts with emotional labels. The approach considers the representation of emotions as emotional dimensions. A corpus of example texts previously annotated by human evaluators is mined for an initial assignment of emotional features to words. This results in a List of Emotional Words (LEW) which becomes a useful resource for later automa...

Animal models and the embodiment of emotions

This review draws some parallels between the results of experiments, none very recent, of rewarding and aversive brain stimulation in brain stem sectioned cats and the blunting of negative emotions which occurs in the human locked-in syndrome. Within the framework of theories of embodied emotions, it is suggested that a participation of bodily inputs to cerebral mechanisms of emotion is require...

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality

Population, development, and human natures

At the dawn of this new millennium, the human enterprise is quickly becoming a globally unified one. Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification. A substantial fraction of the world’s population is well-off and increasingly connected through trade and communications systems. But an even larger fraction is struggling to make ends meet and is only sketchi...