[FRIAM] Eternal questions

[Pieter Steenekamp]

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg


On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 at 07:08, ⛧ glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> On August 23, 2021 8:30:52 PM PDT, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >
> >Does that help?
>
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> glen ⛧
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