For anybody interested in a new revolutionary version of how the brain works, there is a very interesting podcast where Lex Fridman interviews the neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins. Jeff reckons there are thousands of similar structures in our brain, each one of these with a model of the world making predictions. Then a sort of voting system decides what prediction to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 07:08, ⛧ glen <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nah. An emotion is exactly analogous to your thumb, registerable both as a > separate object and a compositional part of you, composed in both space and > time, with all that part-whole relations imply. > > On August 23, 2021 8:30:52 PM PDT, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >In general the grammar of the two words is different. If you say I had > something, I am sent looking for a property, possession or attribute. If > you say I did something, I am sent looking for an action I performed. So, > there is a vast inclination to make emotion words as a reference to > something we carry inside, rather than a pattern in what we do. This seems > to me like misdirection, a category error in Ryle’s terms. > > > > > > > >Does that help? > > -- > glen ⛧ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > 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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