[dosy]

emotions are just the way we experience rewards and losses.

we build up our emotion response network over time through experience and sublimating initial basic rewards like for getting fed, attention, loved, petted with more compound/sophisticated rewards.

what if consciousness as we experience it is independent of the substrate and doesn't emerge from it but is picked up/entangled with any substrate of the right and sufficient expressiveness, function and structure?

what if there is another sort of synthetic consciousness that exists only within the substrate and emerges out of (or can be designed in) it?

do you want to build computers for consciousness to inhabit or computers for synthetic awareness/AGI to exist in?

sort of like the difference between Androids with a ghost and those without in ghost in the Shell.