On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Dr. Matthias Heger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our goal system is hierarchical. The 3 most basic goals are: > Survive, reproduce yourself, help people who are useful for you. > > If you analyze the behavior of human beings you can reduce it almost always > to one of these three goals. >
You are unnecessarily simplifying it. There are many drives that can all be traced to propagation of DNA, but propagation of DNA is not explicitly among them and doesn't govern them as the supergoal, and so they all push in somewhat different directions. See http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/11/thou-art-godsha.html > > So in my opinion emotions exist not as a very high level phenomenon which > has the task to solve the most difficult problems. Contrarily, they belong > to very fundamental levels of the brain > and exist already for most fundamental kinds of behavior. > "High level" is overloaded in this context. It is not clear which sense of "high level" should be considered inapplicable to emotions. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
