On Tue, May 23, 2023 Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> wrote: *> What was the biochemical or neural change that suddenly birthed the > feeling of pain? *
It would not be difficult to make a circuit such that that whenever a specific binary sequence of zeros and ones is in a register the circuit stops doing everything else and changes that sequence to something else as fast as possible. As I've said before, intelligence is hard but emotion is easy. *> I don't believe symbols can be grounded in other symbols* > But it would be easy to ground symbols with examples, such as the symbol "2" with the number of shoes most people wear and the number of arms most people have, and the symbol "greenness" with the thing that leaves and emeralds and Harry Potter's eyes have in common. * > There is no concept in our brains that is not ultimately connected to > something we've seen, heard, felt, smelled, or tasted.* > And that's why examples are important but definitions are not. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> tlw -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0HNSqOnMzz14yx9U0y0eRkUWHZt%2BbzKY%3DBx_%2Bu%3D_M1HA%40mail.gmail.com.
