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