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It's ontologically impossible for matrix multiplication and non-linear transforms to have emotions. So I'm not sure where he's coming from.
by kelseyfrog 3y ago
It's ontologically impossible for matrix multiplication and non-linear transforms to have emotions. So I'm not sure where he's coming from.
- peddling-brink 3y agoAt its core, what is our brain doing to cause us to experience emotions? Can that (neurons) be expressed mathematically? If so, what’s to say that math can’t experience emotions?
- kgwgk 3y agoAt its core, what is a mass doing to cause gravitational attraction? Can that (distortion of space time) be expressed mathematically? If so, what's to say that math can't cause gravitational attraction?
- adamsmith143 3y agoYou jest but that is actually a subject of real research.
- endtime 3y agoDepends how you define "emotion", but I imagine the grandparent is assuming a definition along the lines of "neurochemical reaction to stimulus that affects mammalian consciousness in a way that affects heart rate, perception, skin temperature, blood flow to different parts of the body, etc."
- mrangle 3y agoThere's isn't a mathematical model of how thinking works, let alone of the entire organism. So no, respectfully. A theory that thinking equals math and so math must at some point equal thought (and then emotion) remains inhibited by the first unproved statement, at the least.
- WithinReason 3y agoIt's ontologically impossible for neurons to have emotions too, yet here I am being annoyed by your comment.
- adamsmith143 3y agoThis is of course false. We can't prove how any system is able to have emotions much less prove that a system can't