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In Principles of Psychology, William James speculated that any kind of non-corporeal afterlife would necessarily be non-emotional, since our emotions are felt i
by mjklin 11y ago
In Principles of Psychology, William James speculated that any kind of non-corporeal afterlife would necessarily be non-emotional, since our emotions are felt in our bodies rather than our brains.
- uberlux 11y agoIf we ever managed to emulate our consciousness on other hardware, wouldn't we be also able to emulate bodily sensations and emotions?
- kennu 11y agoI guess it depends if your emotional configuration is still stored somewhere, or if it was lost when cryo-preserving your head only.
- shabble 11y agoAs an ignorant layperson, I kind of assume we could. A virtual machine thinks it has a network card and a hard disk and whatever, but it's just being given what it expects to see. The problem I was imagining is that right now we're not recording that data in the way that we're, e.g. scanning the brain's neuron connections. So even if we could rebuild/emulated Frozen Jim's Brain, there may be permanent loss of essential information that was distributed around his lymph system or population of gut bacteria such that 'the same person' cannot be reconstructed.
- mentat 11y agoThat seems like a rather limited view of location in the opposite. We feel emotion in all of us including our brains.