The Michael Shermer Show12 Maalis 2019

57. Dr. Frans de Waal — Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Based on his latest book — Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves — the legendary biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal continues his empirical and theoretical work on animal societies, politics, intelligence, sentience, consciousness and, now, feelings and emotions. In this conversation Dr. de Waal and Dr. Shermer discuss:

the difference between feelings and emotions
the problem of "other minds" (how do we know what other people, much less animals, are thinking and feeling?)
why it took a century since Darwin's book on the evolution of animal and human emotions before scientists took up the mantle
the push back from social scientists that Paul Ekman and other scientists, including de Waal, got for suggesting emotions evolved
A.I. and emotions (can we program feelings into robots?)
the six different emotions and why there are very probably more
the nature/nurture debate in the study of emotions
primate politics in U.S. elections: a biologist analyzes the Trump-Clinton debate #2
is Trump an alpha male or a bully?
the difference between sentience and consciousness
animal rights and the future of factory farming.

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This Science Salon was recorded on February 12, 2019.

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