using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation
It can be, but it can also be a gross misrepresentation. Outside of higher mammals, it seems safer to me to assume that their emotions are extremely dissimilar and human emotions are poor analogues at best.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I’m not even sure a shared taxonomy of human emotions is particularly accurate, given how differently people sense even nameable emotions.
But they’re still valid emotions ofc, just kinda unknowable