"But feelings are /not/ information! Feelings are states of being. A
feeling (mild wistfulness, say, on a warm summer morning) has,
ordinarily, no information content at all. /Wistful/ is simply a way to
/be/.''
If there was no such state of being estimated in a transpersonal way
then there would not be word for it.
American Heritage Dictionary:
wistful:
1. Full of wishful yearning
2. Pensively sad; melancholy
Does anyone seriously deny personality? That there exists relatively
unique neural connectivity that makes Me different from anyone else?
It hard makes me a `roboticist' to observe that the these unique
aspects, after subtracting off all that is known about personality, and
what I infer to be similar in other people (e.g. based on
stimulus/response experiments and modeling in everyday life), says to me
that I'm not excessively unique. I'm again and again struck by how easy
it is to find examples of people (say, in the media) that seem eerily
like me and even seem to me `ahead' of me on acting on their feeling.
If anything, this recognition of my humiliating smallness motivates me
to get up off my ass and find something about my life trajectory that
adds unique value.
One thing that gives meaning to human life is to have each add a little
bit to pool of written history and technology -- to make the subjective,
objective.
Marcus
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