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once upon a time when freud walked the land and people read him, a distiction floated out from his work or maybe from someone else's but no matter, a distinction between affect and emotion.
the distiction was emotion has words attached.
affect doesn't.
so to say that non-human animals "don't have emotions" is basically to say that they don't have the same kind of language as humans have, which is, so far as we know, kind of a duh point.
but that doesn't preclude affect, which does not preclude feeling.
this is pretty elementary stuff.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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