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Originally posted by livi
Feelings are chemical/hormonally initiated primitive motivators for the organism to behave/act in a way that tends to gain an upper hand in the gene pool race. Nothing more, nothing less I am afraid.
Same basic principals apply in all animal kingdom. In the case of Homo Sapience a more advanced brain has put us in a more advanced social system that to a certain extent blurs out the basic primitive instincts or puts a lid on them. I believe that is bad for us in many ways, but thats another topic.
There are no inherent meaning to our lives besides the drive to survive and reproduce. The rest is a product of the agonizing mind of a creature that evolution gave the ability to predict its own death.
Fire away at will.. 
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agreed
it also explains how emotions can be altered through medicine , think MDMA, think MAOI's, alcohol and nicotine...
even foods with certain chemicals in em, like Milk , Chocolate, eating red beef vs pasta with veggies...
Monkeys have social structures as well , complex too , although not even close to our structures... in fact our brain grew due to our way of socializing, and how we had to deal with each other, not as a requirement to deal with the rest of the world and to survive...if we had to simply evolve to survive, the easy way would have been to stay closer to Monkeys/Gorilla's and Urang Utangs.. at least in the physical sense...although some may argue that some are indeed close to Gorilla's, physically , mentally and hairgrowthontheirbackally