Comment by 082349872349872
1 year ago
How about this: because we are capable of the (potentially motivational) conscious feeling anger, relying on the unconscious emotion anger has questionable utility?
(affect and mood may be well defined within a discipline, but cursory googling seems to reveal substantial interdisciplinary inconsistency)
Given human variation I'm not quite willing to generalize that much. I'd say pretty much anything our minds do is of questionable utility when taken to an extreme. But this extreme will vary between people.