Humans are machines. Yes they are conscious but they are also a kind of apparatus
You also don't feel with your heart, you feel with your brain. And those feelings are also just based on statistical processes. Afraid? Because your situation makes death seem more likely. In love? Because the person in front of you seems to create well-adapted offspring
@andrewpretzel@writingcooperative@writingcommunity 3) Nothing can understand god, because god is a logically incoherent concept. I am not saying he doesn't exist, only that he does not make sense (therefore cannot be understood) to anything that assumes logic to be true
But you get what I mean, emotions are neither magical, nor exclusive to humans. Apparently dairy cows mourn the loss of their calfs for weeks.
In the end, they are heuristic calculations made to evaluate our situation and help us react instinctively. If a neural network is good at one thing, its probably somewhere along these lines
Feeling, similarly to sentience, is a byproduct of our brain functions.
Its comparable to a phone getting hot when its doing some heavy calculations. Its not its function to get hot, but it just happens because thats how the phone is built
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