RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 2, 2019 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2019 at 10:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 2, 2019 at 9:05 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It pretty much amounts to this: you poke something with a stick and it says, "Ouch. Fuck off!" and you take this to be an expression of displeasure, i.e. mind. But what happens when robots say "Ouch. Fuck off!" when poked with a stick? What if, given mechanical tear ducts, highly expressive synthetic musculature in their faces and so on, robots are sufficiently humanoid in appearance and mannerisms to stimulate evolved emotional responses in humans?
In asking this question that way, you show what we take as indicative of a mind in humans...but if these things aren't indicative of a mind, then there's no need to invoke highly advanced robots "faking it" - the criticism, then..is on our mind.
@Bel.
-and if your inner world -is-..itself, "automatic programming"?
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