We seem to mutually misidentify anger and hate. That is surprising. Emotions are usually assumed to be universal. Could be cultural. I looked it up and there found this research question:
Human Emotions: Universal or Culture‐Specific? (PDF)
Anna Wierzbicka has made an effort to decompose this into fundamental building blocks:
Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals
I have not yet fully read it but this seems like a program worthy to communicate wider.
Emotional machinery is universal. Emotional ontologies can be culture-specific. I do differ on a lot of cultural assumptions relative to community here on Less Wrong such as on the flexibility of abstract concepts, civilization-specific ontologies, the essence of goodness and stuff that isn’t even on the Western map.
We seem to mutually misidentify anger and hate. That is surprising. Emotions are usually assumed to be universal. Could be cultural. I looked it up and there found this research question:
Human Emotions: Universal or Culture‐Specific? (PDF)
Anna Wierzbicka has made an effort to decompose this into fundamental building blocks:
Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals
I have not yet fully read it but this seems like a program worthy to communicate wider.
Emotional machinery is universal. Emotional ontologies can be culture-specific. I do differ on a lot of cultural assumptions relative to community here on Less Wrong such as on the flexibility of abstract concepts, civilization-specific ontologies, the essence of goodness and stuff that isn’t even on the Western map.