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human
CMV: I don't understand how anyone can believe that animals have no emotions.

I can understand that a very simple creature such as an oyster, for example, can be without emotions, but more complex animals show them all the time.

Anybody who ever owned dogs or interacted with them, *must* have seen them show emotions. Seeking to be close to a human, getting scared of loud noises or storms, showing enthusiasm when they're about to go for a walk, playing with each other, enviously fighting for the human's affection...

You can see similar behaviors in most animals, from cows to lions, wolves and crows.

I don't understand why any human that sees animals showing emotions with his/her own two eyes would jump to a counterintuitive conclusion that they're not actually feeling them. This seems like a colossal cognitive dissonance.
gpt
I think you’re confusing “emotions” with qualia. 

The question isn’t whether they emote or *show* emotions. The question is whether they experience or *feel* emotions or any subjective experiences at all. It’s not a physical question of having them. It’s a philosophical question of whether animals feature subjective conscious experience at all. 

I can program a furby to emote. It can react and display and communicate. But it isn’t sentient and lacks consciousness. So it’s possible to express what isn’t experienced. The question is to what degree animals of various kinds have subjective first-person experience at all.