>> Well, this tells you something interesting about the human cognitive >> architecture, but not too much about intelligence in general...
How do you know that it doesn't tell you much about intelligence in general? That was an incredibly dismissive statement. Can you justify it? >> I think the dichotomy btw feeling and thinking is a consequence of the >> limited reflective capabilities of the human brain... I don't believe that there is a true dichotomy between thinking and feeling. I think that it is a spectrum that, in the case of humans, is weighted towards the ends (and I could give reasons why I believe it has happened this way) but which, in a ideal world/optimized entity, would be continuous. ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Goertzel To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [agi] Pure reason is a disease. Well, this tells you something interesting about the human cognitive architecture, but not too much about intelligence in general... I think the dichotomy btw feeling and thinking is a consequence of the limited reflective capabilities of the human brain... I wrote about this in "The Hidden Pattern", and an earlier brief essay on the topic is here: http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2004/Emotions.htm -- Ben G On 5/1/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From the Boston Globe ( http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/29/hearts__minds/?page=full) Antonio Damasio, a neuroscientist at USC, has played a pivotal role in challenging the old assumptions and establishing emotions as an important scientific subject. When Damasio first published his results in the early 1990s, most cognitive scientists assumed that emotions interfered with rational thought. A person without any emotions should be a better thinker, since their cortical computer could process information without any distractions. But Damasio sought out patients who had suffered brain injuries that prevented them from perceiving their own feelings, and put this idea to the test. The lives of these patients quickly fell apart, he found, because they could not make effective decisions. Some made terrible investments and ended up bankrupt; most just spent hours deliberating over irrelevant details, such as where to eat lunch. These results suggest that proper thinking requires feeling. Pure reason is a disease. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
