>
> Our entire emotional system is designed to help us solve real world
> problems - by pressuring us into solutions, even though we could quite
> reasonably, a la Elliott, keep thinking about them forever.
>
> That's why our emotions are painful - to pressure us into real world
> action *before* we've given real world problems "due consideration". ("Due
> consideration" of real world problems is infinite). If there were no pain,
> as you seem to think a good idea, we wouldn't decide and act, and we
> wouldn't survive, and nor would any real world agent.
>
I would personally continue to decide and act, in the absence of pain
qualia ...
However, a young child or a dog -- or maybe a typical person, I'm not sure
--- perhaps would not do so, and in the absence of pain would die due to
stupidly endangering themselves..
Humans have the capability to liberate themselves, to a partial but
important extent, from their evolved goals and motivations.
-- Ben
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