[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[Frank Wimberly]

You're trying hard to avoid the eternal homunculus problem.  Calling it
denigrating names is not an answer.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2021, 12:07 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh!
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> How we seal ourselves in caves of nonsense!
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> And emotion is not something we “have”; it’s something we do.  Or, if you
> prefer a dualist sensory metaphor, it’s a particular mode of feeling the
> world.
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Pieter Steenekamp
> *Sent:* Monday, August 23, 2021 6:04 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Eternal questions
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> The creators of the Aibo robot dog say it has ‘real emotions and
> instinct’. This is obviously not true, it's just an illusion.
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> But then, according to Daniel Dennett, human consciousness is just an
> illusion.
> https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/illusionism.pdf
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> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 09:18, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
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> "In today’s AI universe, all the eternal questions (about intentionality,
> consciousness, free will, mind-body problem...) have become engineering
> problems", argues this Guardian article.
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> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/10/dogs-inner-life-what-robot-pet-taught-me-about-consciousness-artificial-intelligence
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> -J.
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