While we may not know everything about explaining it, pain doesn't seem to be that much of a mystery to me, and I don't consider it a symbol per se. It seems obvious to me anyways that pain arose out of a very early neural circuit as a survival mechanism. Pain is the feeling you experience when pain receptors detect an area of the body is being damaged. It is ultimately based on a sensory input that transmits to the brain via nerves where it is translated into a sensation that tells you to avoid whatever is causing the pain if possible, or let's you know you otherwise have a problem with your hardware.
That said, I agree with you on LLMs for the most part, although I think they are showing some potentially emergent, interesting behaviors. On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:58 AM Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Take a migraine headache - if that's just a symbol, then why does that > symbol *feel* *bad* while others feel *good*? Why does any symbol feel > like anything? If you say evolution did it, that doesn't actually answer > the question, because evolution doesn't do anything except select for > traits, roughly speaking. So it just pushes the question to: how did the > subjective feeling of pain or pleasure emerge from some genetic mutation, > when it wasn't there before? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJrqPH90groRYAgFC0Tux3Y1G-yHZThDBCKaxk%2B3mxcbbKuyRw%40mail.gmail.com.
