I think for you, Ben, the painful thing would be *not* answering at the speed of light
You do remember that painless/emotionless Elliott was just trying to decide
what *restaurant* to go to?! ... for even the simplest of real world
problems,there is no stopping rule - and you really wouldn't want to be like
Ellliott.
From: Ben Goertzel
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 6:53 PM
To: AGI
Subject: Re: [agi] Real World Reasoning
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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