Mike> Eric Baum: What is Thought [claims that] feelings.are Mike> explainable by a computational model.
Mike> Feelings/ emotions are generated by the brain's computations, Mike> certainly. But they are physical/ body events. Does your Turing Mike> machine have a body other than that of some kind of computer Mike> box? And does it want to dance when it hears emotionally Mike> stimulating music? Mike> And does your Turing Machine also find it hard to feel - "get in Mike> touch with" - feelings/ emotions? Will it like humans massively Mike> overconsume every substance in order to get rid of unpleasant Mike> emotions? If its running the right code. If you find that hard to understand, its because your "understanding" mechanism has certain properties, and one of them is that it has having trouble with this concept. I claim its not surprising either that evolution programmed in an understanding mechanism like that, but I suggest it is possible to overcome in the same way that physicists were capable of coming to understand quantum mechanics. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
