Lecture: #19 (Flourishing in our alien, industrial environment)

Question 1

Emotions

Answer 1

Emotions alter our behavior in ways beneficial to our genes; they are brain states

Question 2

The purpose of our emotions is to motivate our behavior thus…

Answer 2

• don’t last as long as we think they will; their goal is to motivate your behavior it doesn’t make sense for it to continue
• occurs in response to our relative situation (compared with our expectations for it).

Question 3

Naturalistic fallacy

Answer 3

Things that are “natural” are good
Things that are “unnatural” are bad