Hi, Steven Peterson -
I see it it emotions play the role on the biological level that carbon plays on the inorganic level and language plays on the social level in being that pattern that offers the versatility and stability needed for the next level to evolve.
There's a very interesting worldview in a strange man named Melvin Gorham's book "The Pagan Bible" from the early 1960s. The basic idea is a pantheistic conception where the world arose out of God's progressive self-limitation - creating a series of "disciplines" in Gorham's lingo. When I was looking into Gorham some years ago I saw some likenesses to Bob, Watts, and Korzybski.
I take it the book is out of copyright - here's the text: http://www.nyx.net/~wboas/pagan.txt
By the way, Gorham seems to have had a dark side - my out of date webpage on him goes into some of it - http://marymaclane.com/gorham/ - seems to have been some overlaps, unfortunately, with the anti-Semitic and homophobic idiocies.
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