| | Emotions are a consequentalness, an outgrowth of the pain/pleasure mechanism of primitive organisms. When the evolving complexity of action/reaction turned into a concentration of nerves, with a central organizing spot called a brain, the emotive responses resulted, specializing according to the particulars of the varients of degrees, mostly of avoidance of pain, as that ensured greater chances of survival - the pleasuring aspect being developed in varients later, as desired but not as desired as aspects of survival pain avoidance was..
When the organizating of the brain reached the point of evolving choice as an additive to furthering survival, then the matter of what the emoting referred to came into being - that is, the emotions were there [all higher animals have it to varying degrees of differenciations], but what one, foir instance, feared would depend on the cognitive evaluating of the circumstances in which the issue of fear arose. Keep in mind, too, that this is in context - the level of cognitiveness varies much between, for instance, primitive ancestors and today, and say, even between primitive thinking of today and those who make much conscious usage of it.
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