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why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
(January 6, 2019 at 7:15 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:
(January 6, 2019 at 7:05 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: Easy.  We observe our conscious states in ourselves first of all.  Then people tell us, all the time, what's going on inside their heads.  We can even infer them in animals, by proxies.  All of these things fall within the realm of scientific observations for certain sciences.

That robots can imitate humans and essentially lie about such states means nothing whatsoever to our evolved abilities.

What is evolutionary purpose of consciousness/subjective experience? Robot-like p-zombie would be just as good at survival

Evidence?



(January 6, 2019 at 7:22 am)bennyboy Wrote: Unless someone can demonstrate substantial differences between subjective experiencing machines (e.g. brains) and non-subjective experiences machines (e.g. super-convincing androids 50 years from now), then there's a problem.

Are you seriously asking people to demonstrate something about a future event that hasn't happened yet and may never happen? That's the stupidest argument I've heard in a while.
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RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience? - by Angrboda - January 7, 2019 at 11:49 am

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