> How can one turn the sinking, horrified feeling when one loses a love into a function? Or describe in terms of a function, the blissful wonder of being in the

> How can one turn the sinking, horrified feeling when one loses a love into a function? Or describe in terms of a function, the blissful wonder of being in the arms of a lover? Evocative questions but I have to challenge the premise. First, that things like emotions and qualia are design ends in themselves for a successful AGI rather than potential emergent properties of same. For that matter, are they really necessary to the brief? > An issue I have is the that there seem to be profound limitations to language, explored in the philosophy of language, that fail to capture much, if not most, of the world. And how much of the world does a human mind capture? The piece already accounts for this claim. The theory is that all language has to do is describe a sophisticated enough network. After that it's black boxes all the way down. > Language is the only tool we have for programming a mind And a darn good one. Formal languages can express a great deal when you find the right abstractions.