Truly felt emotions
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[hide]A world without emotion experiencing agents remains "unobserved" (?)
- If it weren't for emotions then we would all be philosophical zombies and the worls might as well not exist.
- Capability of experiencing emotions seems critically needed for what we usually mean with consciousness.
- If the world is not emotionally experienced can one even say it is observed then? More than an unconscious transistor observes it's input to give an output.
AI and lack of truly felt emotions (so far)
AI as it is today (2025) most definitely has no emotions.
There's just a reward function in the batch training process but
that likely beares no resemlance of how feelings work in the human brain.
AI is exceptionally good at faking felt emotions, fooling many now and more in the future.
This is a problem in it's own right. To be discossed elsewhere.
Question of necessity of truyl felt emotions for living and problem solving.
Living like in surviving, and thriving in our by nature/god-if-you-prefer given environment, our planet and universe.
Repoducing, culture building, …
Experienced emotions are a thing that nature evolved out of necessity.
Will artificial intelligence eventually need to go a similar way to be able to make good and ethical decisions?
Or will at least part of highly intelligent AI remain forever emotionless (Start Trek Vulcans folk like).
(wiki-TODO: Good would be: Examples of emotions being a necessary part of understanding. And examples of were analyzing ones emotions consciously heps in solving problems.)
Emulation of truely felt emotions (not simulation of fake emotions, as all of LLM-AI des as of 2025)
If artificial "in silico" circuits recreate the structures
in the human brain sufficciently well theny they should truly feel.
Many wil probably disagree on this but to the author here
it seems there's nothing speaking against this.
There is seemingly relatd question of deterministicness of minds
being constraint to uber astronomically smaller possibility spaces
but this is likely an orthogonal unrelated question to the capabilty of truly experiencing feelings/emotions.
Fundamentals
Are feelings really pimitive undecopodsabel experiences?
Or have we just not yet learned how to decompose and compose them.
Can there be experienced more than our three base colors RGB? It should be possibe. Nostung special about the number three.
Smells / Tastes / …
Dangers & Cosmic horror
- capability of tinkering with feelings ("drugs wihout substances")
- maximum of maximum horrifying eternal virtual hell (inentional or by accident)
- An awful curse of reality: Pain, fear, and many more negative feelings (unknown limit of intenisty uncomfortable) can't be understood without them being experienced.
- If conscious never ends (consciousness as time scaling frame rate) then "we" all have arbitray long arbitary intense feelings "ahead" of us both the unspeakably good and the unspeakably bad. Yay.
