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Honestly, no idea. I could imagine a Darwin Machine being a "pure brain", as you put it. While we have emotions because our brains built a pure brain atop an e
by calepayson 2y ago
Honestly, no idea.
I could imagine a Darwin Machine being a "pure brain", as you put it. While we have emotions because our brains built a pure brain atop an existing and messy infrastructure.
Or, emotions could just be the subjective experience of thoughts competing.
Calvin goes deeper into things like this in the book, but I suspect emotions help intelligence to some extent insofar as they provide environmental change. It's good for the long term health of an ecosystem to shake things up so that nothing gets too stagnant.
- turtleyacht 2y agoThank-you for your reply. I think it would be interesting to see whether things get complex enough to where, necessarily running on its own and outpacing our monitoring of it, there will be a need for a governing module that the machine identifies as, well, our emotions. Fear, authority, or what it identifies it as. I assume it will need to diagnose and repair itself, so will need to reflect. Who knows, maybe just fiction.