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At 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 ex
by peddling-brink 3y ago
At 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.