Quote Originally Posted by Tiki Snakes View Post
If that makes sense?
The thing is that if emotions are a fundamental aspect of reality (which is the only explanation for how the Warp interacts with it), it does not square with the Culture's implicit ability to remove, alter and generally poke at it however they will.

Making a "human" who gets angry just like any other human... except in the times when he is supposed to get angry at you destroying something he owns... is that really the emotion we call 'anger'?

How about if it doesn't manifest in higher blood pressure and a tendency to hit things, but with him becoming very very sleepy?
Or do we now have an emotion called sleepy-anger? Which is sort of like anger, but not.

You see what I'm getting at here? The Culture can play Ship of Theseus with concept of emotions. This does not square with the 40k assertion that emotions themselves exist outside the human body.