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Another common objection (just to mention), is the distinction between good and bad feelings, suffering and pleasure, etc... If ephiphenonalism is true, those
by szemet 9y ago
Another common objection (just to mention), is the distinction between good and bad feelings, suffering and pleasure, etc...
If ephiphenonalism is true, those categorizations should be purely learned: otherwise it is hard to explain why (evolutionary) harmful things usually cause bad experience and suffering, while useful things usually cause pleasure.
For example: I could feel intense pain and suffering eating a cake, it would not count if my unconscious decision was to eat it. So either it is pure luck that I enjoy it, or I learned to enjoy a lot of (otherwise neutral) feelings.
- incadenza 9y agoRight, it certainly seems that feelings exist to motivate certain behaviors, if nothing else. Anybody who thinks about their own behaviors should readily confirm this. Yeah, I just don't have a good answer for it other than to bite the bullet and say its just a crazy coincidence. The incentives of our unconscious brain are roughly aligned with what feels good. But it doesn't seem satisfactory to me either.