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Neuroscience has begun to correct the computational model by showing how our rational, linguistic mind depends on the ancient limbic brain, where emotions hold
by egeozcan 12y ago
Neuroscience has begun to correct the computational model by showing how our rational, linguistic mind depends on the ancient limbic brain, where emotions hold sway and social skills dominate.
Why can't emotions be computational? For example, in case of danger, fear event gets fired and body responds to that.
- joe_the_user 12y agoWell, you argue that all of the phenomena is "computational" if computing in the brain means something. The main difference between an emotional response and a "rational" or "linguistic" response might be an emotional response would send a signal to the whole system whereas a "linguistic" response might require a chain of manipulations before a final result appeared. Of course we have a long way to go before these speculations become at all accurate.
- tbrownaw 12y ago...might be an emotional response would send a signal to the whole system... No wonder emotions are so messy: they're a form of mutable global state.