Did we evolve to have emotions as time and energy saving heuristics for more expensive cognition?
Our brains were like, "Damn, that's too much to think about, so I'll just decide based on how it makes me feel."

I just started wondering this morning if there is a more parsimonious explanation: what if emotions are a form of cognition, not a distinct entity or experience separate from cognition? If yes, what is their value? Perhaps time and energy savings?
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this is just one anecdote of course, but it's anecdote that makes me very susceptible to the "fuzzy roll-up of computational heavy-lifting" model.
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i forget which of these things happened first, but he tried to get blackmail leverage over me, and was eventually revealed to be a serial sexual harasser.
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for a while I convinced myself that it was because his voice reminded me of someone else I disliked (although the degree of negativity was not at all the same: kinda annoyed by vs. much more visceral reaction.)
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one thing I think about a lot is one of the relatively few ppl I took an instant strong dislike to immediately (this was back in the '90's; no one you know). I tried to unpack my reaction and worked to overcome it so we could work together effectively
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