You're trying hard to avoid the eternal homunculus problem. Calling it denigrating names is not an answer.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 12:07 PM <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh! > > > > How we seal ourselves in caves of nonsense! > > > > And emotion is not something we “have”; it’s something we do. Or, if you > prefer a dualist sensory metaphor, it’s a particular mode of feeling the > world. > > > > n > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Pieter Steenekamp > *Sent:* Monday, August 23, 2021 6:04 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Eternal questions > > > > The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and > instinct’. This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion. > > But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an > illusion. > https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf > > > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > > "In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality, > consciousness, free will, mind-body problem...) have become engineering > problems", argues this Guardian article. > > > https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence > > > > -J. > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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