On Sunday, September 2, 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC-4, Brent wrote: > > On 9/2/2012 5:01 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Saturday, September 1, 2012 12:43:50 PM UTC-4, Alberto G.Corona wrote: >> >> *Where is the revulsion, disgust, and blame - the stigma and >> shaming...the deep and violent prejudices? Surely they are not found in the >> banal evils of game theory. ** * >> >> In the book I referred, it is described the evolutionary role of >> sentiments. Sentiments are the result of mostly unconscious processing. See >> for example the cheating detection mechanism in this book, which has been >> subject to an extensive set of test. and there are many papers about >> cheater detection. cheater detection is a module of logical reasoning >> specialized for situations where a deal can be broken. It exist because >> cheater detection is critical in some situations and it must necessary to >> react quickly. Its effect is perceived by the conscious as anger of fear, >> depending on the situation. >> > > That's not the point. It doesn't matter how tightly the incidence of > sentiment or emotion is bound with evolutionary function, I would expect > that given the fact of emotion's existence. The problem that needs to be > answered is given a universe of nothing but evolutionary functions, why > would or how could anything like an emotion arise? > > > When an amoeba detects a gradient of salinity and moves in the less saline > direction does it have a feeling? >
I imagine that it does. Not much like a feeling we could relate to as human beings, but there is an experience there and it has more qualitative depth to it than when a steel needle interacts with a gradient of salinity, but less depth than when an animal's tongue encounters salinity. Craig > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/P1BsfrVWQZIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
