RE: Do Fruit Flies Have Emotions?
May 16, 2015 at 7:56 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2015 at 7:58 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:But if behavior is indication of feeling, what about the behavior of the compute-Isn't that how we determine that anything -at all- has "feeling" (including our fellow man) - judging by it's behavior? Remove, diminish, or call into question -that- particular metric and all we are left with, in regards to feeling, is an assumption.
I agree with a poster above, in that emotion may be used to loosely, but this doesn't remove the central question, because regardless of whether or not behavior is indicative of emotions like fear, it is most certainly indicative of a whole range of attributes we generally reserve for ourselves and "higher animals".
(I'll still be poisoning the bastards left right and center, mind you....I kill plenty of things that would embarrass a fruit fly when it comes to behavioral or even -dare I say it- emotional response.)
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