Emotion

Closely linked to art is emotion. Emotion is a drive, admittedly, for more complex animals as well. However, humanity forms the world based on a level of emotion unseen in animals. Consider the settling of the U.S. for a moment. Emotions drove the first settlers to embark on a dangerous journey to settle new lands.

Emotion also drives us to help one another, not just as a pack or tribe, but as a species. Pack animals might protect one another and feel emotion toward each other, but they certainly have no feelings for another pack.

Humans have the ability to emote far more broadly, causing, for instance, a doctor to decide to join Medicine sans Frontiers to go help people half-way around the globe for no compensation. So, emotion has been crucial to the development of human society and our modern world. Therefore, it is a cornerstone in what makes our modern society so complex.

As discussed earlier, this is part of the unique, thus far, path of humanity in that it causes changes in the universe itself based entirely on unseen, intangible causes. We, as humans, constantly change our environment around us based entirely on emotion. We do this on a scale unseen before in the universe. 131

We make vast changes to the real world around us based on our emotions.

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