<div dir="ltr">For anybody interested in a new revolutionary version of how the brain works, there is a very interesting podcast where Lex Fridman interviews the neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins. Jeff reckons there are thousands of similar structures in our brain, each one of these with a model of the world making predictions. Then a sort of voting system decides what prediction to use.<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg</a><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 07:08, ⛧ glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Nah. An emotion is exactly analogous to your thumb, registerable both as a separate object and a compositional part of you, composed in both space and time, with all that part-whole relations imply.<br>
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On August 23, 2021 8:30:52 PM PDT, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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>In general the grammar of the two words is different. If you say I had something, I am sent looking for a property, possession or attribute. If you say I did something, I am sent looking for an action I performed. So, there is a vast inclination to make emotion words as a reference to something we carry inside, rather than a pattern in what we do. This seems to me like misdirection, a category error in Ryle’s terms. <br>
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>Does that help? <br>
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